What is Psychiatric Epidemiology? What is Prevalence of Mental Illness? Mental Health Morbidity

Psychiatric epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of mental illness frequency in human beings, with the fundamental aim of understanding and controlling the occurrence of mental illness. Psychiatric epidemiology deals with important components such as disease/disorder, distribution, and frequency of disease/disorder, determinants of disease/disorder, human population, and methods employed to control the occurrence of illness.
Mental health problems can attain the disorder/disease/syndrome level, which is usually considered easy to recognize, define, diagnose, and treat. Hence, they can be called, ‘Visible Mental Health Problems’ in a community. These visible mental health problems are again classified into Major mental disorders and Minor mental disorders. Major mental disorders are easy to recognize and commonly seen in mental hospitals, however, minor mental disorders are common in the community. Another group of mental health problems remains at the sub-clinical/non-clinical/sub-syndromal level and is usually related to the behavior of an individual. They are difficult to recognize, define, and diagnose. Hence, they are called, ‘Invisible Mental Health Problems’. Psychiatric epidemiological studies have ignored this category because of the difficulty in defining and identifying the case. It has also been argued by many researchers, not to pathologize the problems faced by the individuals.
The need of the hour is in addressing major challenges such as lack of mental health manpower and stigma, which are the major threats to developing comprehensive psychiatric services in the community.

[@jagruti6192]

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[@SureshBadaMath]

All the best for your future endeavor

[@sarithajeswin9076]

Sir I would like to know about the prevalence of psychosis in India

[@SureshBadaMath]

As per National Mental Health Survey 2015 -16, severe mental disorder is 0.4 % (one year period prevalence) and 1.4% lifetime prevalence

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