Psychiatry in Ethiopia
| Autor: | David Lippman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Religion and Psychology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Alcohol Drinking Neurotic Disorders Injury control Accident prevention Culture Poison control 050108 psychoanalysis Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Ethnicity Humans Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sex Ratio Occupations Child Psychiatry Aged Epilepsy Depression business.industry Mental Disorders 05 social sciences Infant Human factors and ergonomics General Medicine Middle Aged Mental health 030227 psychiatry Hospitalization Suicide Child Preschool Psychoanalytic Theory Schizophrenia Female Ethiopia Homicide business |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal. 21:383-388 |
| ISSN: | 0008-4824 |
| Popis: | Ethiopia, the third most populous country in Africa, having about 27 million people, has a mental health system involving two psychiatric hospitals and six psychiatrists. The author worked as a psychiatrist for six months in the Addis Ababa psychiatric hospital and obtained statistics relating to the patients consulting the outpatient department. Age, sex, occupation, religion, place of origin, alcohol and chat (a local stimulant) usage, diagnosis and previous treatment data were recorded for all the 281 patients evaluated during one 5 1/2 day week. These data are described and analysed, and examples and comments are given additionally on the frequency of some neurological syndromes and the rarity of depression. This latter finding is then discussed in the light of several of the conspicuous oral trends in the upbringing of children and also in the adult life of Ethiopian society. |
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