Demographic Considerations and Trends
| Autor: | W. Gulbinat, G. Ernberg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Mental Health. 7:18-33 |
| ISSN: | 1557-9328 0020-7411 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00207411.1978.11448789 |
| Popis: | During recent decades the world has been undergoing rapid change. The dramatic growth in the population, which affects mainly the poorest countries, and the economic transition to industrialization, which those very nations are experiencing simultaneously, entail profound structural changes in people1 s sociocultural environments. Urbanization is a consequence of the population explosion and the change in economic patterns; migration is often a result of new political structures or of economic needs. Both are frequently associated with poverty, racism, nutritional problems, poor housing, gross stress, and poor prenatal care. Urbanization favors the change from traditional to nuclear families and the motherTs working outside the home and hence no longer sticking to traditional childrearing patterns. In this situation children are at high risk of physical and mental disorders. Hopelessness, helplessness, passivity, dependence, alienation, suspiciousness, and depression in children and adolescents in the cities cause mental handicaps that demand treatment in later life. |
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