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Poverty and common mental disorders in low and middle income countries: A systematic review

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The debate is attempted to shift the debate from questions about whether poverty is associated with CMD in LMIC, to questions about which particular dimensions of poverty carry the strongest (or weakest) association.
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2010-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 992 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poverty & Population.

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Child and adolescent mental health worldwide: evidence for action

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence and the gaps in the published work in terms of prevalence, risk and protective factors, and interventions to prevent and treat childhood and adolescent mental health problems.
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On the psychology of poverty

TL;DR: Evidence indicates that poverty causes stress and negative affective states which in turn may lead to short-sighted and risk-averse decision-making, possibly by limiting attention and favoring habitual behaviors at the expense of goal-directed ones, which may constitute a feedback loop that contributes to the perpetuation of poverty.
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