Income inequality and the prevalence of mental illness: a preliminary international analysis
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: The World Health Organisation’s world mental health survey initiative has recently provided comparable cross-national estimates of the prevalence of any, and serious, mental illness.1 In an exploratory study, we estimated the relations of two important economic factors—living standards and income inequality—to mental illness in developed countries.
Prevalence of mental illness in the WMH survey initiative is derived from face to face interviews using the WMH version of the WHO composite international diagnostic interview (WMH-CIDI), a fully structured, lay administered psychiatric diagnostic interview. Data …
Authors: Kate E Pickett, Oliver W James, Richard G Wilkinson
Institutions: University of York, University of Nottingham
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2111824078