Mental health and inequality - ROGER GOMM

Link between health and material conditions well known
1. For nearly every kind of illness, disease or disability ... poorer people are affected more than richer people
  1. More often
    1. More seriously
      1. For longer
        They die younger
SUICIDE
1. Second highest cause of death for younger men
  1. Shows a very strong relationship with social class and deprivation
    1. Close link with alcoholism
      1. Alcoholism: more linked with unskilled, the unemployed and the roofless
        severe drug problems more prevalent in poorer areas
DEPRERSSION
1. Strong social class profile
  1. Poorer you are more likely to be miserable
2. More accident prone
3. Strongly associated with coronary disease
4. Self harming shows same class pattern
Schizophrenia
1. 3 x more likely with those of working class origin
  1. Genetic link
    1. Causal deprivation link
      1. Mental illness and deprivation may lie in prolonging and increasing the severity
        of a condition caused by something else
Dementia
1. Greater prevalence among lower socio-economic group
  1. Though skewered by fact that lower class people survive less into old age.
Eating disorders more prevalent amongst middle class
No clear social pattern Bipolar - though possibly more common amongst middle class
Manic depression end up in lower paid or unemployed positions
1. 1. Residential segregation is associated with mental ill health

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