"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.
Concept/Terms
Central City- Central City
- Central Cities
- Cities, Central
- City, Central
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Urbanization".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Urbanization".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Urbanization" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Urbanization" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2008 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2011 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
2012 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2013 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
2014 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2016 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
2018 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
2019 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
2021 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Urbanization" by people in Profiles.
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Natural disasters: a comprehensive study using EMDAT database 1995-2022. Public Health. 2024 Jan; 226:255-260.
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Urbanization and kidney dysfunction in Brazilian indigenous people: a burden for the youth. Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2023; 69(2):240-245.
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Urbanization and systolic/diastolic blood pressure from a gender perspective: Separating longitudinal from cross-sectional association. Health Place. 2022 05; 75:102778.
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Gut microbiome-mediated metabolism effects on immunity in rural and urban African populations. Nat Commun. 2021 08 11; 12(1):4845.
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Emerging properties of malaria transmission and persistence in urban Accra, Ghana: evidence from a participatory system approach. Malar J. 2021 Jul 19; 20(1):321.
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Urbanization in Peru is inversely associated with double burden of malnutrition: Pooled analysis of 92,841 mother-child pairs. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 08; 29(8):1363-1374.
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Heat-mortality risk and the population concentration of metropolitan areas in Japan: a nationwide time-series study. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 05 17; 50(2):602-612.
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Climate and the spread of COVID-19. Sci Rep. 2021 04 27; 11(1):9042.
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Hypertension in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Circ Res. 2021 04 02; 128(7):808-826.
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Bending the Curve in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality: Bethesda + 40 and Beyond. Circulation. 2021 02 23; 143(8):837-851.