Meaning of urbanicity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality or fact of (an area) being urban.
   uncountable, usually
2. The degree to which a given geographical area is urban.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“The risk of psychotic disorder in the population exposed to urbanicity alone was 1.59% (31/1946), the risk in those exposed to family history, broadly defined, alone was 3.01% ... Thus, between 60% and 70% of the individuals exposed to both urbanicity and family history had developed psychotic disorder because of the synergistic action of the two proxy causes.”

“To assess this hypothesis, the urbanicity of a boy's place of residence was run against enlistment.”

“2002: Heinz Häfner (ed), Risk and Protective Factors in Schizophrenia: Towards a Conceptual Model of the Disease Process A number of studies have associated urbanicity at birth or upbringing with schizophrenia risk.”

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