Inequality also damages mental health in a variety of other ways. A number of studies now show that people in more unequal societies are much less likely to feel they can trust each other. Within rich developed societies, the proportion of the population who agree that “most people can be trusted” falls from 60 or 65 percent in the most ...
Mental health is a crucial component of human well-being (Saxena et al., 2015).Nearly one billion people worldwide are living with a mental health disorder, and this number is clearly on the rise (Patel et al., 2023).Mental health disorders are increasingly recognized as a major cause of disease burden (Herrman et al., 2022), a significant risk factor for disability (Arias et al., 2022) and ...
Ribeiro and colleagues' meta-analytic review of the relation between mental illness and income inequality 5 finds modest effect sizes—pooled Cohen's d effect size 0·06 (95% CI 0·01–0·11) for any mental health problem and 0·12 (0·05–0·197) for depressive disorders—but two points need to be kept in mind. First, exposure to ...
Background Horizontal equity is defined as equal care for equal needs, regardless of socioeconomic factors. This study investigated trends in horizontal equity in mental health care (MHC) utilization in Sweden from 2006 to 2022. Monitoring equity provides valuable information for healthcare system governance (e.g., planning and resource allocation) necessary for ensuring equitable provision of ...
Conclusion: Inequalities in mental health resources persist, and the burdens of mental disorders are increasing globally. Our findings underscore the critical need to reduce the overall burden of mental health disorders through enhanced allocation of prevention-oriented resources. Countries at different levels of human development face distinct ...
The number of detentions under mental health legislation is growing, disproportionately impacting Black men. Previous research into the over-detention of Black people is repetitive and solutions to reduce disparities are ineffective, not enacted, or outdated. This review is original and novel in using a lived experience lens within the Silences framework, to interpret and validate review ...
Background Black individuals in the U.S. report experiencing the highest levels of racial discrimination in healthcare. Racial discrimination in healthcare contributes to mental health issues and has been shown to be associated with loneliness. Despite this, there is limited research on the role loneliness plays in the relationship between racial discrimination in healthcare settings and ...
It has been proposed that income inequality affects health through a material pathway and a psychosocial pathway. In the material pathway, income inequality affects health outcomes through poverty and deprivation, which are related to increased stress 9 and reduced access to health care, 10 and are prevalent in highly unequal societies. 11 The psychosocial pathway relies on status competition ...
The Surgeon General’s landmark report on mental health concluded that when racial and ethnic minority individuals are able to receive mental health care, it is more likely to be poor in quality. Lack of health insurance is a significant factor affecting access to mental health treatment, and many factors contribute to the fact that people of ...
Common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, are a primary cause of global disease burden (Whiteford et al., 2013) and they are socially stratified.This becomes clear in the association between socio-economic status (SES) and three related health outcomes: Individuals with lower SES (1) have a higher lifetime prevalence of anxiety and depression, (2) are less likely to ...
Employees struggling with mental health issues also are much less likely to remain with any employer for long (U.S. Workers Facing Increasing Mental Health Challenges, 2024). Bad mental health among workers results in an unproductive, turmoil-filled workplace, which is bad for business and the US economy as a whole.
Expanding access to mental health services and insurance coverage remains essential for equitable care. 61,62 Targeted mental health support programs can be enhanced to acknowledge the distinct experiences, stressors, and cultural factors faced by different racial and ethnic groups, 63 recognizing that the association between discrimination and ...
University students from racially minoritised backgrounds are at an increased risk of experiencing mental health difficulties but are less likely to seek support compared to students from racial and ethnic majority backgrounds. To increase the accessibility and appropriateness of mental health support for university students, it is important to understand the attitudes towards seeking help for ...
Mental health, resilience and inequalities A greater understanding of inequalities is also crucial to recognizing the limits of what promoting positive mental health can achieve. Positive mental health does confer considerable protection and advantage, but it does so predominantly among those with equal levels of resources. In other words,
Ani C, Ola B, Hodes M and Eapen V (2024) Editorial: Equity, diversity and inclusion in child and adolescent mental health – equality of opportunities should be every child's right and every society's obligation, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 10.1111/camh.12698, 29:2, (123-125), Online publication date: 1-May-2024.
The most recent review of health inequalities in England calls attention to the need to tackle the individual causes of poor health across the life course, and acknowledges the social gradient in health, whereby even the health of those close to the top of society is worse than those at the very top. 29 But the Marmot Review, although it calls ...
