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Year : 1992 | Volume
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| 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
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PMID: 21776140 
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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