Tag: economic inequality and mental health
Owing More and Feeling Worse
From Psych Central: "While we may consider the reasons we go into debt — from falling prey to strategic advertising that encourages us to buy now...
Is Rising Inequality Responsible for Greater Stress and Anxiety?
From The Guardian: "Now Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the authors of The Spirit Level, have returned with a new book, The Inner Level: How More...
Is Rising Inequality Responsible for Greater Stress, Anxiety and Mental Illness?
From The Guardian: In 2009, when the world was still absorbing the shock of the previous year’s financial crisis, a book called The Spirit Level...
A Mental Health Crisis is the True Cost of University Marketization
From Red Pepper: University students are facing unprecedented rates of mental health crises due to a combination of financial insecurity and ever-increasing academic pressure.
"Meanwhile, our futures...
“Financial Health” is Good Medicine in Mental Health Care
In this piece for the Yale School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry blog, Lucile Bruce highlights the work of Associate Research Scientist Dr. Annie...
“Disparities and High Costs Fuel the Health Care Crisis”
For the Boston Globe, Jeffrey Sachs examines America’s health crisis and finds its roots in inequality. “At the core of the crisis of health...
