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Examining the Background and Global Experiences and Presenting Study Challenges and Gaps

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This chapter consists of two sections: research background and global experiences. In the first section, the background of the research in urban mental health and urban stress is examined, and research challenges and gaps are presented. In the second section, global experiences related to urban mental health are explored, and issues and challenges are presented.

Since there is no global plan related to urban stress, this section provides some successful global experiences (Knox Mental Health Action Plan, Ararat City Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, Moreland municipal public health and wellbeing plan, Casey Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, Northern Grampians Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plan, Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan) in the field of urban mental health improvement and the solutions presented in them are introduced. In fact, considering the relationship between the concepts of stress, health, mental health, and the city, cities reduce the mental health of citizens through urban stressors. So, the factors reducing urban mental health can be the same urban stressors. Of course, this issue needs further investigation. In the end, after examining global experiences, it has been tried to extract some stress-relief urban planning from these plans. In this section, it was attempted to examine the indicators presented in global experiences on the topic of urban mental health and collect the indicators corresponding to urban stress.

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Jalilisadrabad, S., Behzadfar, M., Moghani Rahimi, K. (2023). Examining the Background and Global Experiences and Presenting Study Challenges and Gaps. In: Stress Relief Urban Planning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4202-2_6

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