Mental Health and Illness in the City
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| Riassunto: | text |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Serie: | Mental Health and Illness Worldwide,
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0752-1 |
| Natura: | Elettronico Libro |
Sommario:
- Tentative Table of Contents - Prevalence of mental disorders in cities worldwide
- Positive factors for mental health promotion, prevention and treatment in city settings
- City planning, neighborhoods and mental health
- Green environment and mental health in the city. (Author: Kua Ee Heok). - Ghettoes, cultural groupings and mental disorders
- Slums and economic disparities in mental health
- Failure of community care in large cities and urban slums
- The challenges of growing cities to mental health services
- Cultural diversity and mental health
- Institutions - prisons and asylums and the deinstitutionalization
- Homelessness and challenges of community care
- Mental health, crime and illicit drug use
- Terrorism and psychiatry
- Racism, stigma and religion in mental health. - Loneliness and single person households
- Mental disorders in rapidly growing cities
- Future perspectives.