 Urbanization
"Urbanization" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process whereby a society changes from a rural to an urban way of life. It refers also to the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas.
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D014507
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.526.726
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| Concept/Terms |
Central City- Central City
- Central Cities
- Cities, Central
- City, Central
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urbanization" by people in Profiles.
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Van Hedger SC, Nusbaum HC, Clohisy L, Jaeggi SM, Buschkuehl M, Berman MG. Of cricket chirps and car horns: The effect of nature sounds on cognitive performance. Psychon Bull Rev. 2019 Apr; 26(2):522-530.
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Shutters ST, Lobo J, Muneepeerakul R, Strumsky D, Mellander C, Brachert M, Farinha T, Bettencourt LMA. Urban occupational structures as information networks: The effect on network density of increasing number of occupations. PLoS One. 2018; 13(5):e0196915.
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Wang H, Cheng M, Dsouza M, Weisenhorn P, Zheng T, Gilbert JA. Soil Bacterial Diversity Is Associated with Human Population Density in Urban Greenspaces. Environ Sci Technol. 2018 05 01; 52(9):5115-5124.
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Santos-Vega M, Bouma MJ, Kohli V, Pascual M. Population Density, Climate Variables and Poverty Synergistically Structure Spatial Risk in Urban Malaria in India. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 12; 10(12):e0005155.
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Santos-Vega M, Martinez PP, Pascual M. Climate forcing and infectious disease transmission in urban landscapes: integrating demographic and socioeconomic heterogeneity. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2016 10; 1382(1):44-55.
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Schwartz NG, Rattner A, Schwartz AR, Mokhlesi B, Gilman RH, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Miranda JJ, Checkley W. Sleep Disordered Breathing in Four Resource-Limited Settings in Peru: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Association with Chronic Diseases. Sleep. 2015 Sep 01; 38(9):1451-9.
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Lax S, Nagler CR, Gilbert JA. Our interface with the built environment: immunity and the indoor microbiota. Trends Immunol. 2015 Mar; 36(3):121-3.
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Schläpfer M, Bettencourt LM, Grauwin S, Raschke M, Claxton R, Smoreda Z, West GB, Ratti C. The scaling of human interactions with city size. J R Soc Interface. 2014 Sep 06; 11(98):20130789.
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Blair JE, Huffman M, Shah SJ. Heart failure in North America. Curr Cardiol Rev. 2013 May; 9(2):128-46.
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Bettencourt L, West G. A unified theory of urban living. Nature. 2010 Oct 21; 467(7318):912-3.
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