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. 1992 Oct-Dec;34(4):334–339.

URBANIZATION AND MENTAL MORBIDITY IN CERTAIN TRIBAL COMMUNITIES IN WEST BENGAL

DN Nandi 1,, Gauranga Banerjee 2, AN Chowdhury 3, Tapas Banerjee 4, GC Boral 5, Biswajit Sen 6
PMCID: PMC2982969  PMID: 21776140

Abstract

The same team of workers surveyed a rural and an urban sample of the same tribe (Santal) by the same method. It was found that urbanization had little effect on the total mental morbidity. But stress-dependent disorders were commoner in the urban tribe.

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