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Acknowledgments

This review paper is mainly based on our recently published papers (Kato et al. SPPE 2012; Teo et al. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2015; and Teo et al. Psychiatry Res 2015). The introduced studies in this review paper were supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on (1) the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) (Yugo-Nou to TAK); (2) the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science-KAKENHI (to TAK (26713039 & 15 K15431)); (3) Innovative Areas “Will Dynamics” (16H06403 to TAK) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan; (4) Young Principal Investigators’ Research Grant of Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University (to TAK); and (5) SENSHIN Medical Research Foundation (to TAK). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Dr. Teo is supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States government.

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  1. Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes, Geneva, Switzerland

    Norman Sartorius

  2. Kobe University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

    Naotaka Shinfuku

  3. Department of Social Welfare, School of Human Sciences, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Naotaka Shinfuku

  4. Department of Psychological Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Heok Eee Kua & Shigenobu Kanba

  5. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Takahiro A. Kato

  6. Brain Research Unit, Innovation Center for Medical Redox Navigation, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Takahiro A. Kato

  7. Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, OR, USA

    Alan R. Teo

  8. Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Alan R. Teo

  9. Sapporo Hana Developmental Psychiatry Clinic, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

    Masaru Tateno

  10. Department of Psychiatry, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, South Korea

    Tae Young Choi

  11. National Drug Dependence Treatment Centre, Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India

    Yatan Pal Singh Balhara

  12. King’s College London, London, UK

    Yatan Pal Singh Balhara

  13. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Yatan Pal Singh Balhara

  14. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Yatan Pal Singh Balhara

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Sartorius, N. et al. (2019). Urban Mental Health in the Twenty-First Century. In: Javed, A., Fountoulakis, K. (eds) Advances in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_38

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