Scott Weich

TL;DR: WEMWBS is a measure of mental well-being focusing entirely on positive aspects of mental health that offers promise as a short and psychometrically robust scale that discriminated between population groups in a way that is largely consistent with the results of other population surveys.

TL;DR: A short 7 item version of WEMWBS was found to satisfy the strict unidimensionality expectations of the Rasch model, and be largely free of bias, and is preferable to the full 14 item version at present for monitoring mental well-being in populations.

TL;DR: Evidence for inequalities in morbidity and mortality by occupational social class and material standard of living has become irrefutable and attention has turned to the effects of social context.

TL;DR: Poverty and unemployment increased the duration of episodes of common mental disorders but not the likelihood of their onset, and financial strain was a better predictor of future psychiatric morbidity than either of these more objective risk factors though the nature of this risk factor and its relation with poverty and unemployment remain unclear.

TL;DR: Stigma may influence how a psychiatric diagnosis is accepted, whether treatment will be adhered to and how people with mental illness function in the world, however, perceptions of mental illness and diagnoses can be helpful and non-stigmatising for some patients.