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    The document discusses the impact of urbanization on mental health in South Asia. It notes that rapid urbanization is linked to issues like poverty, environmental degradation, and demands exceeding infrastructure capacities. This can jeopardize human health and lead to problems like psychoses, depression, and substance abuse. Migrants from rural to urban areas face acculturative stress as they adjust to new environments and customs. Urbanization in South Asia exacerbates existing issues like inequality, violence, and scarce resources. The overburdened healthcare systems make it difficult to properly diagnose and treat rising mental health problems. The document concludes that governments need sound mental health policies that address these complex challenges through integrated, population-specific approaches leveraging local

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    Urbanization and Mental

    Health

    By
    Sufyen Chaudhary
    AU180184
    Abstract
    One of the causes and symptoms of Urbanization is the rising population all over the world. By
    the end of 2025, cities will be home to the majority of the world's population. Demographers,
    sociologists, biologists, and politicians are all paying attention to this paradigm shift in human
    population dynamics. Urbanization carries with it a distinct combination of benefits and
    drawbacks. Urbanization has an impact on the entire population, particularly the most vulnerable
    members of society, such as the elderly, children and adolescents, and women. Urbanization has
    led to an added poverty. Poverty and mental health has an multidimensional relationship.

    This paper will study the impact of these aspects of urbanization on mental health of people,
    focusing on south-asia region. The paper will discuss the causes and the results in detail, as well.
    Methodology
    The research methodology used in this paper is qualitative. Research by other scientists,
    doctors and mental health experts have contributed in this paper in the form of their
    primary research, statistics etc.
    This paper required reading majorly into the primary literature by the same and some of
    the reports and surveys held by the government and private institutions of the concerned
    countries.
    Introduction
    ● Rapid, sometimes uncontrolled urban growth, on the other hand, is frequently linked
    to poverty, environmental degradation, and population demands that exceed service
    capacity.
    ● Human health is jeopardised as a result of these circumstances. In most parts of the
    world, reliable urban health statistics are scarce. Even rarer are disaggregated intra-
    urban health statistics, i.e., data for distinct locations within a city.
    ● Urbanization has brought with it its own set of mental health and well-being issues.
    Cities are becoming more varied in their population, owing to higher speed and lower
    costs of communication and transportation.
    The impact of urbanization
    ● It is frequently questioned whether the rising volume and proportion of cities are
    outstripping human capacity to live in a secure environment with mutual support and
    care.
    ● Some argue that the sheer magnitude of metropolitan life forces individuals to give up
    their individual identities in favour of anonymity, apathy, and narrow self-interest.
    ● Multiculturalism in today's cities promotes greater tolerance, a higher quality of life, and
    sociocultural stimulation; but, it also promotes increasing social tensions, interethnic
    competition, and cultural disputes, all of which have mental health implications.
    ● Psychoses, depression, sociopathy, substance abuse, alcoholism, criminality, delinquency, vandalism,
    family dissolution, and estrangement are only a few of the diseases and deficiencies linked to
    urbanisation. Such unfavourable consequences frequently lead to irrational behaviour, which might
    lead to communal violence.
    ● Behavior limitations that are practised or enforced on urban residents have a negative influence. If a
    person's behaviour is excessively suppressive, he or she may develop a sense of powerlessness, which
    can lead to stress-related diseases.
    ● The number of people migrating to cities has risen considerably in recent decades. Most migrants are
    from rural areas, and their mental health values, beliefs, and expectations are typically considerably
    different from those they find in their new region.
    ● People from rural areas have often faced years of isolation, lack of technological
    connectivity, bad health, and poverty, unemployment and no proper housing.
    ● They must acculturate and adjust not merely to a new and difficult urban
    environment, but also to new and different systems of symbols, meanings, and
    customs.
    ● Many of the social processes associated with urbanisation, including rivalry, class
    warfare, accommodation, and assimilation, have been linked to social deviance.
    The condition in South Asia
    ● South Asia is the world's most densely inhabited and impoverished region. It is
    confronted with significant social, economic, and health issues, including
    widespread inequality, violence, political instability, and a scarcity of resources.
    ● These countries have a higher disease burden and a primary health-care delivery
    system that is already strained. They are also afflicted by a lack of public
    knowledge, stigma connected with mental illness, poverty, and illiteracy.
    ● Both the physician and the patient are under enormous strain as a result of rapid
    urbanisation. In crowded clinics, maintaining a healthy doctor-patient relationship
    becomes nearly impossible.
    Accurate diagnosis and good follow-up are nearly impossible to achieve due to the
    enormous number of patients, time restrictions, and wide spectrum of diseases. As a
    result, there are many clinical errors and unnecessary diagnostic testing.
    Conclusion
    ● Mental illness is a developing problem that requires immediate response. To effectively
    address the problem of mental illness, a thorough understanding of poverty is essential,
    taking into consideration both individual and social variables.
    ● This strategy is consistent with current urban health research, which implies that an
    integrated approach that recognises the complexity of urban health challenges is the
    way to go.
    ● The governments of these countries should be encouraged to adopt sound mental
    health policies, to allocate budgets based on a comprehensive assessment of morbidity
    and the cost of illnesses to society, to tailor policies to the needs of various populations,
    and to maximise the use of locally available resources.
    ● Urbanization isn't entirely good or negative. It's probably safe to conclude that
    urbanisation is propelling the economy of all South Asian countries forward,
    allowing them to grow from strength to strength. "No country in the industrial age
    has ever achieved considerable economic growth without urbanisation," according
    to the UNFPA research.
    References

    ● Trivedi, J., Sareen, H., & Dhyani, M. (2008). Rapid urbanization - Its impact on mental health: A South

    Asian perspective. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 50(3), 161. https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.43623

    ● Blue, I. (2019). Urbanization and mental health in developing countries. PubMed.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12291948/

    ● Ruiz-Grosso, P. (2019). Depressive Mood Among Within-Country Migrants in Periurban Shantytowns of

    Lima, Peru. PubMed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25367530/


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