URBANIZATION, PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS, AND MINOR MENTAL ILLNESS IN TAIWAN
Resource
URBANIZATION AND MENTAL HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES pp.61-72
Journal
URBANIZATION AND MENTAL HEALTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Pages
61-72
Date Issued
1995
Date
1995
Author(s)
CHENG, TAI-ANN
SOONG, WEI-TSUEN
CHONG, MIAN-YOON
LIN, TSUNG-YI
Abstract
Genetic and other biological factors play a relatively minor role compared with psychosocial influences in the causation of minor mental disorders. Urbanization is one of the psychosocial factors attracted much studies but its relationship with minor mental disorders is still controversial. The authors reviewed four epidemiological surveys conducted in Taiwan and found that urbanization was not associated with mental illness. The findings in these four studies and studies from other developed and developing countries are unable to support the notion that urbanization has increased the risk of mental ill-health. The authors concluded that the different set of socio- environmental factors in communities of different urbanization level should be studied so that to have a better understanding of the role of urbanization on mental health.
Type
book