Mental health in the UK worsened substantially as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic - by 8.1% on average and by much more for young adults and for women which are groups that already had lower levels of mental health before Covid-19. Hence inequalities in mental health have been increased by the...

Es wird aktuell immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, dass dem Bereich psychische Erkrankungen eine steigende Bedeutung als Ursache für frühzeitiges Ausscheiden aus dem Arbeitsleben zukommt. Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz entschloss sich daher 2012, das Thema...

Zahlreiche Studien zeigten, dass Eltern - und hier insbesondere Mütter - besonders häufig und in vielfältiger Weise bereits früh zu den Hauptleidtragenden der Pandemie gehörten. Auch zwei Jahre nach Ausbruch der Corona-Pandemie können wir dies anhand der vorliegenden Auswertungen der...

The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of...

The relationship between health and employment status continually shows that individuals who work have lower levels of illness and higher self-reported health. This study examines how self-reported health and objective measures of health (multimorbidity and mental health problems) differ across...

Mental health and poverty are strongly interlinked. There is a gap in the literature on the effects of poverty alleviation programmes on mental health. We aim to fill this gap by studying the effect of an exogenous income shock generated by the Child Support Grant, South Africa's largest...

We screen the mental well-being and psychological distress of 1165 refugees, migrants, internally displaced, and non-displaced people from Ukraine who seek psychological help online in Ukraine and across 24 countries of the European Union. We see that more than half of the respondents exhibit...

The COVID-19 pandemic and related public health restrictions have led to severe disruptions in day-to-day lives, including education, employment and social activities. Young adults have experienced the highest rate of job loss during the pandemic (Central Statistics Office, 2020b). This study...

Seit dem Reaktorunfall von Tschernobyl wendet die Ukraine jährlich 5–7% ihres BIP auf, um das zerstörte Kraftwerk und die Umgebung zu sichern und zu dekontaminieren sowie um Betroffene zu entschädigen. Die tatsächlichen Folgekosten der Katastrophe gehen aber weit darüber hinaus. Das...

Using longitudinal data that tracks bulimic behavior among young girls (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study), we examine (1) whether bulimic behavior is onsistent with addiction criteria as stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV...