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Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries

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It is found that the mental health effect of poverty alleviation interventions was inconclusive, although some conditional cash transfer and asset promotion programmes had mental health benefits and mental health interventions were associated with improved economic outcomes in all studies.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-10-22. It has received 654 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Psychological intervention & Mental health.

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Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

TL;DR: The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions is the official document that describes in detail the process of preparing and maintaining Cochrane systematic reviews on the effects of healthcare interventions.
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Development as Freedom

Amartya Sen
TL;DR: In this paper, Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves howe'er contented, never know.
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Screening for Serious Mental Illness in the General Population

TL;DR: The brevity and accuracy of the K6 and K10 scales make them attractive screens for SMI, and routine inclusion of either scale in clinical studies would create an important, and heretofore missing, crosswalk between community and clinical epidemiology.
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Poverty and common mental disorders in developing countries

TL;DR: A review of English-language journals published since 1990 and three global mental health reports identified 11 community studies on the association between poverty and common mental disorders in six low- and middle-income countries that showed an association between indicators of poverty and the risk of mental disorders.
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Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology: A Natural Experiment

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