[The effect of living conditions in a student town in Sofia on mental illness morbidity]

The effect of the factors of the living environment on the health and more specifically on the psychic health of young people is multi-indicated and essential. The present profound investigation of the psychic morbidity of the students in Sofia during 1986/1987 according to data of the dispensary registration at the student polyclinic shows reliably higher values in students living in the student's town, especially in those of male sex. These higher values are due first of all to the diseases with leading psychic and social factors in the etiology. In spite of the possible contribution of "paranosological" factors, the effect of the unfavourable psycho-social factors result of the conditions of life in the student's town, according to our opinion, is essential.