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Gender and Mental Health : Are There Differences?
K Damodaran, Deepa; Paul, Varghese - 2019
Mental health is clearly an integral part of health. There is no health without mental health. It is the foundation of well-being and effective functioning for an individual and for a community. Mental health and mental illnesses are determined by the interaction of multiple social,...
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A hard pill to swallow? : parental health shocks and children's mental health
Glaser, Felix; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2022
Based on comprehensive administrative health record data from Austria, this study examines how children's mental health responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is restricted to children who experience the health shock...
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The causal impact of mental health on tobacco and alcohol consumption : an instrumental variables approach
Mitrou, Francis; Ha Trong Nguyen; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2023
household monetary expenditures on either tobacco or alcohol. The impact is greater for lower educated individuals or children … cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking behaviours. We find that mental distress significantly increases the prevalence and … intensity of either cigarette or alcohol consumption. Further analysis reveals that mental distress also substantially increases …
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The provision of community-based mental health care in Lithuania
Wijker, Doron - 2022
This paper sets out the OECD’s assessment of the provision of community-based mental health care in Lithuania. It provides an overview of the burden of mental ill health in Lithuania, highlights strengths and challenges of the mental health care system and care delivery, reports on the quality...
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Minority Mental Health : Intersections between Faith and Ethnicity
Iqbal, Neelam - 2022
It is estimated that 1 in 6 people experience a mental health disruption every week in the UK(1). During the lockdowns of 2020, the global incidence of suicide has suggestively risen between 1 to 145%(6,7). Amidst this uncertainty, the UK reported that those from black and ethnic minority (BAME)...
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Mental health in Ireland during the covid pandemic : evidence from two longitudinal surveys
Madden, David - 2022
Using data from the Growing Up in Ireland Covid survey, this study examines the evolution of mental health as measured in December 2020, nine months into the pandemic, compared to observations pre pandemic for two cohorts of people. A deterioration in mental health was observed for both cohorts...
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Mental illness and unhappiness
Layard, Peter R. G.; Chisholm, Dan; Pātil, Wīkrām; … - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points. 1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
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Mental Illness and Unhappiness
Layard, Richard - 2013
This paper is a contribution to the second World Happiness Report. It makes five main points.1. Mental health is the biggest single predictor of life-satisfaction. This is so in the UK, Germany and Australia even if mental health is included with a six-year lag. It explains more of the variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074902
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Socioeconomic Burden of Mental Disorders in Spain 2006-2017
Stoyanova, Alexandrina - 2019
Mental health is not only the lack of mental disorders but is considered a crucial resource for overall health and well-being (including employment and productivity). The current paper tries to shed some light on the evolution of mental well-being over a period of 15 years, including the years...
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Child health during the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany : fewer treatment cases and fewer diagnoses of infections
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 13/16, pp. 113-121
During the first coronavirus lockdown in Germany in spring 2020, treatment cases of children in outpatient care declined by up to 20 percent. As this study based on administrative diagnosis data of all statutory health insurance companies in Germany shows, there were significantly fewer physical...
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