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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Progress in primary mental health problems Keywords:: coexistence of diseases In recent years, the coexistence of diseases (comorbidity) reported abroad endless variety of psychiatric journals, but on its theory and clinical practice are rarely mentioned internally, so this is reviewed. First, the concept of co-existence of disease The coexistence of the disease concept was first proposed by Feinstein, is an index of cases under study in their course of treatment, the disease appears in a different [1]. Then gradually evolved into both at the same time (simultaneously) the disease, the so-called horizontal linkages (cross-sectional), but also has the incidence (in succession), the so-called vertical linkages (longitudinal). At present the disease is representative of the coexistence of four kinds of definition: (1) Campbell [2] Psychiatric Dictionary: in the presence or suffering from the same patient at the same time more than one disease. (2) Burker: the same person in a specific period of time suffer from more than one specific obstacles [1]. (3) American Psychiatric Glossary: two or more kinds of diseases exist, for example, schizophrenia and substance abuse, or alcohol dependence and depression simultaneously. This link may reflect a barrier as an obstacle and another link between the accident, or two kinds of barriers have the potential susceptibility may also be the clinical manifestations of these disorders with any common cause or susceptibility has nothing to do [3] . (4) Medical terminology, slang and jargon dictionaries: in the same patient there are two or more kinds of pathological condition or disease, which can lead to hospitalization complicate the work of health care in the United States, in making the relevant one group after diagnosis, within a reasonable period to decide the length of hospitalization, the coexistence of disease is a very important term [4]. With regard to the definition of the above diseases, al