This paper examines changing patterns of health, causes and effects of urban stress, and approaches to the management of stress

Burton, Ian

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Factors in Urban Stress

This paper examines changing patterns of health, causes and effects of urban stress, and approaches to the management of stress. Changing Patterns of Health Dramatic advances in biomedical research and the great increases in national financial resources devoted to health care have enabled the richer countries of the European region to bring under control and virtually conquer the major killing infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, poliomyelitis and mea-sles, which only thirty years ago still constituted an important hazard. Even earlier, the diseases of typhoid, cholera and malaria were brought under control, first in northern and then in southern Europe. Such diseases are still at a high level of incidence in countries on the borders of the European region and constant vigilance is therefore still required, especially in cities where immigrant populations are growing

Ian Burton

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