ReviewBundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz2020
[Does the city make us ill? The effect of urban stress on emotions, behavior, and mental health].
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- Exploring urban mental health using mobile EEG - a systematic review.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- A moderated mediation model of green space exposure, mindfulness, physical activity level, and perceived stress.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Estimating weight for multidimensional health poverty using Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process: a case of China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Type of Refugee Accommodation and Health of Residents: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Cluster Analysis in South-West Germany.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Explorative analyses on spatial differences in the desire for social distance toward people with mental illness in a diverging city.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Urbanicity-Perspectives from Neuroscience and Public Health: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Perspectives in poverty and mental health.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Associations of Depressive Symptoms, COVID-19-Related Stressors, and Coping Strategies. A Comparison Between Cities and Towns in Germany.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
Urban life correlates with a higher risk for several mental diseases. A stress-dependent pathomechanism is considered to play a crucial role. Likewise, current data indicate a higher responsivity of the brain to social stress in urban residents. At the same time, city dwellers live under more advantageous conditions, encountering better access to education, personal evolvement, healthcare, and cultural diversity. It can be assumed that a higher exposition to chronic social stress in urban areas - in combination with other risk factors (social, psychological, or genetic) - can turn into a pathogenic factor, particularly in the case of impeded access to resilience-promoting resources of the city. It urgently remains to be explained which social groups are at increased risk and which urban planning and political measures to counteract social stress prove to be health protective. Therefore, we call for an interdisciplinary research approach, which incorporates urban research, medicine, and neuroscience and encourages a transdisciplinary knowledge exchange with politics, civil society, and citizens. With regard to the rapid pace of urbanization worldwide, further research and action is urgently required.
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