For you information: >>EPIDEMIOLOGY >> >>Taking the Long View of Depression >>Fifty-year Study Reveals Rise in the Illness Among Younger Women >> >>You would not find Stirling County on a map of Atlantic Canada, but it is >>a >>real place. It was given this protective pseudonym by Alexander Leighton, >>HSPH >>professor emeritus of social psychiatry, back in 1948 when he first picked >>the >>location for an unprecedented longitudinal study of mental illness. Since >>the >>first interviewers took the field in 1952, Stirling County has mirrored >>nearly >>all the social changes that have transformed daily life in metropolitan >>centers >>across North America. Stirling County has become more suburban and less >>rural, >>the local economy less industrial and, for that matter, less local. It has >>seen >>living standards rise, educational opportunities widen, and health care >>delivery expand. It has also seen more crime, more drug abuse, more media >>saturation, frailer families, and weaker religious values. What Stirling >>County >>has not seen is a general increase of depression. >> >>Full text: >>http://www.med.harvard.edu/publications/Focus/Dec1_2000/epidemiology.html Jeff Nagelbush [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ferris State University _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
