Poverty and mental health: policy, practice and research implications. (October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Knifton, Lee; Inglis, Greig
• Is Part Of: BJPsych bulletin. Volume 44:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 193
• Page End: 196
• Publication Date: 2020-10
• Subjects: Poverty, -- stigma, -- intersectional stigma, -- inequality, -- public health; Psychiatry -- Periodicals; Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 616.8905
• DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2020.78
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2056-4694

Abstract

Summary: This article examines the relationship between poverty and mental health problems. We draw on the experience of Glasgow, our home city, which contains some of Western Europe's areas of greatest concentrated poverty and poorest health outcomes. We highlight how mental health problems are related directly to poverty, which in turn underlies wider health inequalities. We then outline implications for psychiatry.