Impact of the Environment on Psychiatric Disorder

Name: Impact of the Environment on Psychiatric Disorder
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ISBN: 9780415116183

ISBN-10: 041511618X

ISBN-13: 9780415116183

Edition: 2008

Authors: Hugh Freeman, Stephen Stansfeld, Hugh L. Freeman, Stephen A. Stansfeld

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The Impact of the Environment on Psychiatric Disorder explores the relationship between the environment and mental health, and suggests that environmental factors can play a role in the causation of psychiatric illness. Hugh Freeman and Stephen Stansfeld bring together experts from the field to discuss a range of physical and social environmental settings that are linked to psychiatric disorders. International contributors discuss topics such as: psychosocial processes linking the environment and mental health gene-environment interactions urban-rural differences social support migration how noise affects psychiatric disorders. The book closes with a discussion of how disasters such as…

Book details

List price: $89.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/18/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Barbara Ramusack is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. Her publications include Women in Asia: Restoring Women to History (1999), and The Princes of India in the Twilight of Empire: The Dissolution of a Patron-Client System, 1914-1939 (1978).



Acknowledgements


Contributors



Introduction




Gene-environment interactions in mental disorders: A current view




Geographical perspectives on psychiatric disorder




Urban-rural differences, socio-economic status and psychiatric disorder




Psychosocial processes linking the environment and mental health




Social support, environment and psychiatric disorder




Migration and mental health




Housing and mental health




Noise and psychiatric disorder




Seasonality and mental health: Mood disorders, suicide, and schizophrenia




Psychiatric morbidity following disasters: Epidemiology, risk, and protective factors



Index