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Changes in the Administrative Incidence of Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Glynn Harrison ,
J. E. Cooper  and
Richard Gancarczyk
Glynn Harrison
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, A Floor, South Block, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH
J. E. Cooper
Affiliation:
Formerly of the Academic Department of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham
Richard Gancarczyk
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, University of Nottingham
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Abstract

First-admission rates to psychiatric hospitals, and data from certain psychiatric case registers suggest that there may have been a substantial decline in the administrative incidence of schizophrenia in recent years. However, data from the Nottingham case register show that rates for first-onset schizophrenia remained stable between 1975 and 1987. It is suggested that variations in trends between different parts of the UK may be partly explained by differences in the proportion of migrants and their children in the population at risk.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 6 , December 1991 , pp. 811 - 816
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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