"Urban Population" 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 inhabitants of a city or town, including metropolitan areas and suburban areas.
| Descriptor ID |
D014505
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N01.600.900
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| Concept/Terms |
Urban Population- Urban Population
- Population, Urban
- Populations, Urban
- Urban Populations
Urban Spatial Distribution- Urban Spatial Distribution
- Distribution, Urban Spatial
- Distributions, Urban Spatial
- Urban Spatial Distributions
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Urban Population".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Urban Population".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Urban Population" by people in this website by year, and whether "Urban Population" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2008 | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2012 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2016 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2018 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2019 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Urban Population" by people in Profiles.
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Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa. Nature. 2025 Feb; 638(8051):718-728.
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Objectively-measured sleep characteristics and the associated factors among rural and urban in-school Nigerian adolescents. Sleep Med. 2025 03; 127:158-165.
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"You go an extra mile": a qualitative study of community health worker perspectives in a health promotion intervention in urban South Africa. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Dec 23; 24(1):1641.
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Unhealthy food outlets and outdoor advertisements in urban South African primary school students' food environments. Health Promot Int. 2024 Dec 01; 39(6).
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Examining the psychometric properties of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 among young urban South African women. J Affect Disord. 2025 Jan 15; 369:61-70.
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Identifying pregnant and postpartum women's priorities for enhancing nutrition support through social needs programmes in a resource-constrained urban community in South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2024 Aug 16; 24(1):2231.
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Geospatial disparities in survival of patients with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa from the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes cohort (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 2024 Jul; 12(7):e1111-e1119.
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The Impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Menopause on Bone Mineral Density: A Longitudinal Study of Urban-Dwelling South African Women. J Bone Miner Res. 2023 05; 38(5):619-630.
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Rural-Urban Differences in Diabetes Care and Control in 42 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-sectional Study of Nationally Representative Individual-Level Data. Diabetes Care. 2022 09 01; 45(9):1961-1970.
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Cardiometabolic outcomes of women exposed to hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy at 3-6 years post-partum in an urban South African setting. PLoS One. 2022; 17(2):e0263529.