Population density and the rate of mental illness

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11033982
AutoresL Schweitzer (0000-0003-1531-0223), W H Su, Wu Su
Año1977
Volumen67
Número12
Páginas1165-1172
Fecha de publicación1977-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.67.12.1165
PMID596500
OpenAlexW2147359773
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas14

An examination of age specific rates of psychiatric admissions within Brooklyn, New York, indicated that population density may function as an intervening variable in the production of mental illness. Measures of household and family contact were found to be significantly correlated to four rates of hospital utilization. These same measures carried unique components that were also significantly related to service use. Other measures of density such as people per acre and structures per acre were found to be unrelated to the rates of psychiatric utilization. The results of this study suggest that if density does produce mental illness its likely mechanism of action will be routed through household contact

Association (psychology) · Environmental health · Mental health · Mental illness · Population · Psychiatry · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Gerontology