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Socioeconomic inequalities and mental health problems in children and adolescents: A systematic review
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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
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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.
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Early-Life Adversity and Physical and Emotional Health Across the Lifespan: A Neuroimmune Network Hypothesis
Robin Nusslock,Gregory E. Miller +1 more
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.
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Review: Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children and youth - a systematic review.
Hasina Samji,Hasina Samji,Judy K. Wu,Amilya Ladak,Caralyn Vossen,Evelyn Stewart,Naomi Dove,David Long,Gaelen Snell,Gaelen Snell +9 more
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.
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Socioeconomic disadvantage and child development
TL;DR: The link between socioeconomic disadvantage and children's socioemotional functioning appears to be mediated partly by harsh, inconsistent parenting and elevated exposure to acute and chronic stressors.
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The spirit level : why equality is better for everyone
TL;DR: The Spirit Level as discussed by the authors provides hard evidence to show how almost everything -from life expectancy to depression levels, violence to illiteracy - is affected not by how wealthy a society is, but how equal it is; that societies with a bigger gap between rich and poor are bad for everyone in them -including the well-off; and how we can find positive solutions and move towards a happier, fairer future.