Psychiatric epidemiology is the study of the _____ a specific disorder in a given interval of time.
a. number of people who die from
b. number of doctors who treated
c. geographic distribution of the people who are in treatment for
d. percentage of people in a population who have
Ans: d. percentage of people in a population who have
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