Public Health Aspects of Diagnosis & Classification of

Table of Contents
Introduction: public health and the classification of mental disorders
Preface: WHO perspectives on stakeholder involvement in revision of the diagnosis and classification of mental disorders
Service user and carer stakeholder perspectives on the public health aspects of diagnosis and classification of mental illnesses
Prevention of mental disorders: implications for revision of psychiatric diagnosis and classification
Capturing complexity: the case for a new classification system for mental disorders in primary care
Use of diagnosis in forensic psychiatry
Economic consequences of revising the diagnostic nomenclature for mental disorders
Education and training
Statistics and information systems
Translating psychiatric diagnosis and classification into public health usage
Formulation of functioning, disability, and contextual factors in the diagnosis of mental disorders in DSM and ICD
Index