Psy > Epidemiology

Relationships between poverty and psychopathology: a natural experiment.
JAMA. 2003 Oct 15;290(15):2023-9.
Costello EJ, et al.
Duke University Medical School, Durham, NC.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/197482
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14559956
CONTEXT: Social causation (adversity and stress) vs social selection (downward mobility from familial liability to mental illness) are competing theories about the origins of mental illness.

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A living wage
APA Monitor on Psychology. April 2016, Vol 47, No. 4
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/04/living-wage.aspx
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http://thepsychreport.com/the-psychlist/know-thy-future-self-tracking-the-evolution-of-language-in-real-time-plus-more-weekly-links

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Depression: A Meta-Analysis
Am. J. Epidemiol. 2003, 157 (2): 98-112.
V. Lorant, et al.
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/157/2/98.abstract Results indicated that low-SES individuals had higher odds of being depressed (odds ratio = 1.81, p < 0.001)

SES = socioeconomic status

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http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~mfarah/research/socioeconomic-status-and-brain

on poverty:
http://www.npr.org/2014/04/02/297926310/finding-a-more-nuanced-view-of-povertys-black-hole

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/05/22/how-schools-can-help-nurture-students-mental-health

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figure from:
Depression in the United States Household Population, 2005-2006
NCHS Data Brief No. 7, September 2008
Page last updated: January 19, 2010
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db07.htm

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National Center for Health Statistics.
Health, United States, 2011: With Special Feature on Socioeconomic Status and Health.
Hyattsville, MD. 2012.
In 2005–2010, the prevalence of depression among adults 45–64 years of age was 5 times as high for those below poverty (24%), 3 times as high for those with family income between 100%–199% of poverty (15%), and more than 1.5 times as high for those with family income between 200%–399% (7%), compared with those at 400% or more of the poverty level (5%) (Figure 33).