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Cities and Mental Health.

Overview of attention for article published in Deutsches Aerzteblatt International, February 2017
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54 news outlets
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5 blogs
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3 policy sources
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53 X users
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5 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Cities and Mental Health.
Published in
Deutsches Aerzteblatt International, February 2017
DOI 10.3238/arztebl.2017.0121
Pubmed ID
Authors

Oliver Gruebner, Michael A Rapp, Mazda Adli, Ulrike Kluge, Sandro Galea, Andreas Heinz

Abstract

More than half of the global population currently lives in cities, with an increasing trend for further urbanization. Living in cities is associated with increased population density, traffic noise and pollution, but also with better access to health care and other commodities. This review is based on a selective literature search, providing an overview of the risk factors for mental illness in urban centers. Studies have shown that the risk for serious mental illness is generally higher in cities compared to rural areas. Epidemiological studies have associated growing up and living in cities with a considerably higher risk for schizophrenia. However, correlation is not causation and living in poverty can both contribute to and result from impairments associated with poor mental health. Social isolation and discrimination as well as poverty in the neighborhood contribute to the mental health burden while little is known about specific interactions between such factors and the built environment. Further insights on the interaction between spatial heterogeneity of neighborhood resources and socio-ecological factors is warranted and requires interdisciplinary research.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
France 1 <1%
Unknown 637 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 92 14%
Student > Bachelor 72 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 68 11%
Researcher 57 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 4%
Other 105 16%
Unknown 217 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 66 10%
Psychology 62 10%
Social Sciences 53 8%
Environmental Science 38 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 37 6%
Other 141 22%
Unknown 241 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 493. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2024.
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#53,435
of 25,525,181 outputs
Outputs from Deutsches Aerzteblatt International
#4
of 1,284 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,212
of 325,251 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Deutsches Aerzteblatt International
#1
of 21 outputs
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