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SUBMITTER: Benjet C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946059 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Benjet C C Sampson L L Yu S S Kessler R C RC Zaslavsky A A Evans-Lacko S S Martins S S SS Andrade L H LH Aguilar-Gaxiola S S Cía A A Medina-Mora M E ME Stagnaro J C JC de Galvez M Y Torres MYT Viana M C MC Galea S S
Psychiatry research 20191011
Rapidly urbanizing areas of Latin America experience elevated but unevenly distributed levels of violence. Extensive research suggests that individual exposure to violence is associated with higher odds of both internalizing (anxiety and mood) and externalizing (substance and intermittent explosive) mental disorders. Less research, however, has focused on how neighborhood-level violence, as an indicator of broader neighborhood contexts, might relate to the mental health of residents, independent ...[more]