Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Discovering Inequality and Mental Health.

Discovering Inequality and Mental Health;

Apparently inequalities within our societies can be detrimental to our well being. They can be major contributory aspects toward stress and have the capacity to cause long-term physical and mental health issues.

Mental Health and Inequality

Mental health is also the key to understanding the impact of inequalities on health and other outcomes. It is abundantly clear that the chronic stress of struggling with material disadvantage is intensified to a very considerable degree …

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Contrasting prevailing approaches with integrated care pathways - care plans, case management and integrated care pathways · Part 2: The organization of mental health care. … [Research reports] The effects of income and education on ethnic differences in oral health: a study in US adults · [Research reports] Understanding the relationship of long working hours with health status and health-related behaviours · [Research reports] Induced abortions and teenage births …

SEIU - Service Employees International Union - Healthcare Equality …

… group of speakers and passionate activists gathered in Washington DC, in the appropriately named Freedom Plaza, to declare their commitment to advocacy and demand that Congressional reform efforts address systemic inequality in the American health care system. … From Hispanics, to African Americans, Koreans and Native Americans; from mental health advocates to 10-year-old children dancing, the evening was a rainbow coalition of support for reforming health care. …

When Systems of Oppression Intersect: Mental Health and the …

Dealing with a mental illness was what started getting me interested in issues of inequality and prejudice in the first place. I’m a bit ashamed to say that I only thought of this while thinking “if I were in the shoes of this immigrant …

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Dawn Pugh Psychotherapist

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