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What is comorbidity and why does it occur?
Chapter 2 What is comorbidity and why does it occur? Louisa Degenhardt, Wayne Hall and Michael LynskeyIntroductionComorbidity can be defined most generally as the co-occurrence of two or moremental health problems. It has emerged as a major clinical, public health andresearch issue over the past few decades. This is due in part to changes in psychiatricnomenclature, in which there is a greater focus upon elucidating any number ofmental health problems with which an individual might present, rather thandiagnosing one problem to the exclusion of , mental health problems are conceptualised as patterns of behaviour orthought that are associated with significant disability, distress, loss of individualfreedom, or adverse events such as death; and which arise from dysfunction withinthe individual (Neugebauer, 1999).
Why study comorbidity? Comorbidity potentially has implications for theories of aetiology, prevention and treatment of mental health problems. Importance for theory
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