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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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Background There are wide differences in health between places in the UK with economic inequalities potentially underlying these differences. Previous regeneration initiatives have failed to alleviate these disparities. Preston, a relatively deprived city in the North West of England, has...
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The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...
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We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...
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We use longitudinal data from the SHARE survey to estimate the causal effect of remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of senior Europeans. We face endogeneity concerns both for the probability of being employed during the pandemic and for the choice of different work...
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We use data of antidepressants prescribed by general practices to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in England. The challenge we face is to estimate such effect separately from the simultaneous reduction in access to general practice health services caused by the pandemic. For...
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In an exploratory study of the program evaluation efforts of federally funded community mental health centers prior to the enactment of mandatory program evaluation, survey data were submitted to factor- and cluster-analyses. Results yielded: (1) a typology of evaluation activities performed by...
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This paper identifies a critical failure in U.S. mental-health insurance regulation, and proposes a solution. The 2008 federal Mental Health Parity law required “parity” in coverage for mental health benefits. But, it permitted insurers to opt out of providing any mental health insurance...
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented changes in the lives of 1.6 billion children and adolescents. First non-representative studies from China, India, Brazil, the US, Spain, Italy, and Germany pointed to a negative mental health impact. The current study is the first...
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