TY - JOUR TI - Epidemiology on demand: population-based approaches to mental health service commissioning AU - Kirkbride, James B. T2 - BJPsych bulletin AB - One in three people will experience a mental health problem in their lifetime, but the causes and consequences of psychiatric morbidity are socially patterned. Epidemiological studies can provide aetiological clues about the causes of disorder, and when they can provide robust estimates about risk in different strata of the population these can also be used translationally, to provide commissioners and service planners with detailed information about local service need. This approach is illustrated using a newly developed population-level prediction tool for first-episode psychosis, PsyMaptic. Such public mental health prediction tools could be used to improve allocation of finite resources, by integrating evidence-based healthcare, public health and epidemiology together. DA - 2015/10// PY - 2015 DO - 10.1192/pb.bp.114.047746 DP - PubMed VL - 39 IS - 5 SP - 242 EP - 247 J2 - BJPsych Bull LA - eng SN - 2056-4694 ST - Epidemiology on demand KW - psymaptic ER -