Urbanization, and child mental health and life functioning in Vietnam: implications for global health disparities

ConclusionsThis study, among the first to assess urbanization as a multi-dimensional continuous construct in relation to child psychopathology, highlights the value of the use of an urbanization factors approach. A new “urbanization factors differentials” theory is proposed to suggest how effects of urbanization factors might result in global health disparities.

http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00127-020-01838-4

Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - February 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research