scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: A systematic review

Franziska Reiss
- 01 Aug 2013 - 
- Vol. 90, Iss: 90, pp 24-31
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The included studies indicated that the theoretical approaches of social causation and classical selection are not mutually exclusive across generations and specificmental health problems; these processes create a cycle of deprivation and mental health problems.
About
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2013-08-01. It has received 1230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Health equity & Social deprivation.

read more

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Gender differences in depression in representative national samples: Meta-analyses of diagnoses and symptoms.

TL;DR: The gender difference in depression represents a health disparity, especially in adolescence, yet the magnitude of the difference indicates that depression in men should not be overlooked, yet cross-national analyses indicated that larger gender differences were found in nations with greater gender equity, for major depression, but not depression symptoms.
Journal ArticleDOI

Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health Across the Lifespan: A Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis

TL;DR: It is argued that early-life adversity amplifies crosstalk between peripheral inflammation and neural circuitries subserving threat-related, reward- related, and executive control-related processes that results in chronic low-grade inflammation, thereby contributing to adiposity, insulin resistance, and other predisease states.
Journal ArticleDOI

Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth - a systematic review.

TL;DR: This review highlights the urgent need for practitioners and policymakers to attend to and collaborate with children and adolescents, especially those in higher risk subgroups, to mitigate short‐ and long‐term pandemic‐associated mental health effects.
Journal Article

Adolescent mental health.

References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Household income histories and child mental health trajectories.

TL;DR: Results indicate that, at initial interview, low household income is associated with higher levels of depression and antisocial behavior; subsequent improvements inHousehold income reduce child mental health problems and highlight the importance of understanding the ways in which children are influenced by their families' income histories.
Journal ArticleDOI

What explains the relation between family poverty and childhood depressive symptoms

TL;DR: The family environment, including parental divorce or separation and perceived parental support, appears to explain most of the relation between low family income and childhood depressive symptoms.
Journal ArticleDOI

Socioeconomic risk factors for mental health problems in 4-5-year-old children: Australian population study.

TL;DR: The fact that mental health problems were most strongly associated with parent education and income should be of interest to policy makers because education andincome reflect investments in the lives of parents' parents during their own childhood and adolescence.
Journal ArticleDOI

Social Status and Psychological Disorder: A Causal Inquiry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Dohrenwends have drawn together in this book much of the most important relevant material and combine this with a perceptive discussion of theoretical and methodological problems and offer promising suggestions for future investigations.
Journal ArticleDOI

The influence of race and ethnicity on psychiatric diagnoses and clinical characteristics of children and adolescents in children's services.

TL;DR: There were significant race and ethnicity effects on diagnosis and clinical characteristics of children and adolescents participating in the federally funded Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program.
Related Papers (5)