Urbanization and the prevalence of schizophrenia in China between 1990 and 2010

World Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 251-252

  Chan, Kit Yee ^a,b   Zhao, Fei Fei ^c   Meng, Shijiao ^c   Demaio, Alessandro R ^d,e   Reed, Craig ^a   Theodoratou, Evropi ^a   Campbell, Harry ^a   Wang, Wei ^c   Rudan, Igor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; LETTER; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84930464116     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: 20515545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wps.20222     Document Type: Letter

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