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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on January 21, 2008
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2008 34(2):251-252; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbm142
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Comment on Paper by Cohen, Patel, Thara, and Gureje

Julian Leff1,2
2 Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London

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   Methodological Issues
 
I agree with the authors’ criticism of the use of the dichotomy between developed and developing countries, partly because of the difficulty in defining these terms and partly due to the myriad different social, cultural, and economic factors subsumed by them. While "low income" and "middle income" can be reasonably accurately defined, they also encompass a great diversity of factors, both within and between countries. In addition, the authors have aggregated 23 studies including prevalence and incidence samples and prospective and retrospective designs. They acknowledge that a meta-analysis is ruled out by this diversity of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The Role of Families
 
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed; 1 South Hill Park Gardens, London NW3 2TD, UK; tel and fax: 00-44-2077-949724 e-mail: j.leff@iop.kcl.ac.uk.


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