SOC363H1 : jan 17 lec
Document Summary
Reading: even classification , sumtimes go against it. Justify funding for services and research cuz a lot of us need gov. money. more u know more funding: phyciatric epidemiology. Sampling a huge pop, it can cost a lot of money. we have to min the cost. Wat they wana study, come up wid interview schedule, qs abt backgrnd, mental health etc. then they get interviewers, hire, train and collect data. This saves money. we rely on lay interviewers : not fully trained, not clinicians. As much as it saves us money, lacks corrected mechanisms that a trained person may have. We get false positives or negatives wid lay interviewers. If we"re relying on them, its imp that we have valid measures. We reallytrain these people well and get from the measures wat we really want: epi studies: Ncs- focused on establishing degree to which diff disorders occure in the same individual. Ncs-r: see if replicate fidings of ncs: eca.
