Urbanization and Mental Morbidity in Certain Tribal Communities in West Bengal

DN Nandi; Gauranga Banerjee; AN Chowdhury; Tapas Banerjee; GC Boral; Biswajit Sen

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Year : 1992 \| Volume : 34 \| Issue : 4 \| Page : 334-339

Urbanization and Mental Morbidity in Certain Tribal Communities in West Bengal

DN Nandi¹, Gauranga Banerjee², AN Chowdhury³, Tapas Banerjee⁴, GC Boral¹, Biswajit Sen¹
¹ Consultant Psychiatrist, Girindrasekhar Clinic, Calcutta, India
² Professor, Psychiatry Unit, N.R.S. Medical College, Calcutta, India
³ Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry, IPGMER, Calcutta, India
⁴ Clinical Tutor, N.R.S. Medical College, Calutta, India

Correspondence Address:
D N Nandi
Consultant Psychiatrist, Girindrasekhar Clinic, Calcutta
India

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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Tlie 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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