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How mental illness loses out in the NHS
London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … matter of simple economics – the net cost to the NHS would be very small. When everyone praises early intervention, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884537
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How Mental Illness Loses Out in the NHS A report by The Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group
Layard, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … matter of simple economics - the net cost to the NHS would be very small. When everyone praises early intervention, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552995
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307428
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Flèche, Sarah; Layard, Richard - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314547
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Machiavelli versus Concave Utility Functions: Should Bads Be Spread out or Concentrated?
Frijters, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Ulker, Aydogan - 2020
Is wellbeing higher if the same number of negative events is spread out rather than bunched in time? Should positive … wellbeing depreciates disproportionally as more and more events occur in a given period. For positive events, effects are weakly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207702
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Covid-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-Covid-19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269519
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COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID-19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270181
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: Evidence from UK Prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012384561
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Ethnic and racial harassment and mental health: Identifying sources of resilience
Nandi, Alita; Luthra, Renee Reichl; Benzeval, Michaela - 2016
In this paper, using data from Understanding Society over the period 2009-2014, we find that ethnic minorities with lower socio-economic status and those who were born in the UK report worse mental health (GHQ). Those who report experiencing ethnic and racial harassment (ERH) also report worse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690338
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How Do Mass Shootings Affect Community Wellbeing?
Soni, Aparna; Tekin, Erdal - 2020
representative data from the Gallup-Healthways survey to assess the spillover effects of mass shootings on community wellbeing and … community wellbeing and emotional health. According to our results, a mass shooting is associated with a 27 percentage point … decline in the likelihood of having excellent community wellbeing and a 13 percentage point decline in the likelihood of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497780