Abstract
Covering every psychiatric patient receiving treatment KATCHADOURIAN (Lebanon) provides prevalence data and incidence figures for a six-month period. HES' paper describes a study of the attitudes towards psychiatric hospitals of three groups of immigrants to Israel (Polish, Yemenite, and Moroccan) and presents data on their utilization of medical facilities prior to hospitalization. It was found that prejudice against modern hospitals or reliance on native medicine did not interfere with the referral of Afro-Asian mental patients to psychiatric hospitals. A report by PETROSIAN and his coworkers on the health and related characteristics of four selected villages and tribal communities in Iran highlights the value of psychological tests, as compared with other procedures, in identifying mental disorders in field surveys.
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