What is 'psychiatric epidemiology'?

What is 'psychiatric epidemiology'?

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Psychiatric epidemiology involves the application of epidemiologic techniques to study the occurrence of mental disorders in the population, how they vary among certain social groups, demographic groups and other epidemiologic variables.