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  2. Socioeconomic status and mental health - Wikipedia

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    The two principal models that attempt to explain this relationship are the social causation theory, which posits that socioeconomic inequality causes stress that gives rise to mental illness, and the downward drift approach, which assumes that people predisposed to mental illness are reduced in socioeconomic status as a result of the illness ...

  3. Socioeconomic status - Wikipedia

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    Socioeconomic status is an important source of health inequity, as there is a very robust positive correlation between socioeconomic status and health. This correlation suggests that it is not only the poor who tend to be sick when everyone else is healthy, but that there is a continual gradient, from the top to the bottom of the socio-economic ...

  4. Social stress - Wikipedia

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    Social support, especially in terms of support for socioeconomic stressors, is inversely related to physical morbidity. [84] A study that investigated social determinants of health in an urban slum in India found that social exclusion , stress, and lack of social support are significantly related to illnesses, such as hypertension, coronary ...

  5. Social determinants of health - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, economic instability, unemployment, and poverty are associated with higher rates of chronic diseases, mental health disorders, and overall poorer health status. According to Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), Economic stability is described as the ability to obtain the resources that is necessary to one's life and well-being. [3]

  6. Social deprivation - Wikipedia

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    Social deprivation is the reduction or prevention of culturally normal interaction between an individual and the rest of society. This social deprivation is included in a broad network of correlated factors that contribute to social exclusion; these factors include mental illness, poverty, poor education, and low socioeconomic status, norms and values.

  7. Social exclusion - Wikipedia

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    Another way of articulating the definition of social exclusion is as follows: Social exclusion is a multidimensional process of progressive social rupture, detaching groups and individuals from social relations and institutions and preventing them from full participation in the normal, normatively prescribed activities of the society in which ...

  8. Social mobility - Wikipedia

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    How strongly economic and social mobility are related depends on the strength of the intergenerational relationship between class and income of parents and kids, and "the covariance between parents' and children's class position". [28] Economic and social mobility can also be thought of as following the Great Gatsby curve. This curve ...

  9. Social psychiatry - Wikipedia

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    Social psychiatry examines class and socioeconomic status (SES) as factors that shape mental health by influencing access to power, privilege, and resources. Research shows that employment instability, low-paying jobs, and poor working conditions are linked to higher rates of psychological distress. [19]