Poverty and mental health: policy, practice and research implications

This article examines the relationship between poverty and mental health problems. We draw on the experience of Glasgow, our home city, which contains some of Western Europe's areas of greatest concentrated poverty and poorest health outcomes. We highlight how mental health problems are related...

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Autores principales: Knifton, Lee, Inglis, Greig
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7525587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32744210
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.78
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spelling pubmed-75255872020-10-08 Poverty and mental health: policy, practice and research implications Knifton, Lee Inglis, Greig BJPsych Bull Special Articles This article examines the relationship between poverty and mental health problems. We draw on the experience of Glasgow, our home city, which contains some of Western Europe's areas of greatest concentrated poverty and poorest health outcomes. We highlight how mental health problems are related directly to poverty, which in turn underlies wider health inequalities. We then outline implications for psychiatry. Cambridge University Press 2020-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7525587/ /pubmed/32744210 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2020.78 Text en © The Authors 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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