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Through the lens: gender, money and mental health
- Author:
- STACEY Becca
- Publisher:
- Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper explores how gender can impact people's financial and mental wellbeing. Across a range of financial indicators, people with mental health problems fare worse on average than people without such conditions. However, our latest analysis reveals there are notable inequalities within this population. We find that women with mental health problems are seven percentage points more likely to find keeping up with domestic bills and credit commitments a burden than men with mental health problems. This is in contrast to a 2 percentage point difference between men and women without mental health problems. Our analysis also explores the experiences of men and women disclosing their financial difficulties and mental health problems to health professionals and essential services firms, and the support they receive as a result. We are calling for employers, the NHS and essential service providers to take urgent action to address the reduced financial resilience that people with mental health problems face. We also reflect on the lack of available data on the experiences of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people. To ensure future analysis is more representative, we are urging government departments to commit to improved inclusive reporting. (Edited publisher abstract)
Risk factors for common mental disorders in women: population-based longitudinal study
- Authors:
- PATEL Vikram, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(6), December 2006, pp.547-555.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The determinants of common mental disorders in women have not been described in longitudinal studies from a low-income country. Population-based cohort study of 2494 women aged 18 to 50 years, in India. The Revised Clinical Interview Schedule was used for the detection of common mental disorders. There were 39 incidentcases of common mental disorder in 2166 participants eligible for analysis (12-month rate 1.8%, 95% CI 1.3–2.4%). The following baseline factors were independently associated with the risk for common mental disorder: poverty (low income and having difficulty making ends meet); being married as compared with being single; use of tobacco; experiencing abnormal vaginal discharge; reporting a chronic physical illness; and having higher psychological symptom scores at baseline. Programmes to reduce the burden of common mental disorder in women should target poorer women, women with chronic physical illness and who have gynaecological symptoms, and women who use tobacco.
In the shadow of race: immigrant status and mental health
- Authors:
- KURZ Brenda, MALCOLM Barris, COURNOYER David
- Journal article citation:
- Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 20(4), Winter 2005, pp.434-447.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study explored the relative usefulness of measures of race, ethnicity, and acculturation in understanding the mental health of an ethnically diverse group of low-income women. The 194 women who were enrolled in the Women, Infant and Child program showed no racial/ethnic variation in the prevalence of mental health symptoms and a general mental health syndrome, as measured by the PrimeMD-PHQ screening tool. However, immigrants or migrants were less likely than were natives to report symptoms of depression and distress. Speaking primarily a language other than English was associated with symptoms of distress. The findings suggest that for treatment and program planning for low-income women, racial/ethnic designations may be less useful than may the more direct measures of the cultural differences they presume to reflect.
Rediscovering the other America: the continuing crisis of poverty and inequality in the United States
- Editors:
- KILTY Keith M., SEGAL Elizabeth A.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 205p.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
In 1962, Michael Harrington published The Other America, which documented how deeply entrenched poverty and inequality were in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Four decades later, it is necessary once again to rediscover this profound social condition. The purpose of this book is to awaken policymakers and the public to this situation once again, in order to affect the nature of public policies dealing with these issues. The book explores recent research on poverty and inequality, identifies strategies for ensuring adequate services, and challenges many of the inaccurate beliefs that were used to justify welfare reform legislation in 1996. There is information on various marginalized groups and their social problems, including lack of health coverage for women with mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence problems. In addition, you'll find data on the health coverage situation for the poor, for Appalachians, and for women in general.
Joining the dots: the combined burden of violence, abuse and poverty in the lives of women
- Authors:
- McMANUS Sally, SCOTT Sara, SOSENKO Filip
- Publisher:
- Agenda
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 76
- Place of publication:
- London
This research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and conducted by researchers at DMSS Research and Heriot-Watt University, combines data on women’s experiences of poverty, mental health, life circumstances, and abuse and violence, to show how different forms of inequality combine in the lives of women in poverty in England. It uses data from the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS), which provides information about mental illness in the general population, as well as information about economic circumstances, social relationships and experiences of sexual and physical abuse, violence. The analysis found that women living in poverty are more likely to have suffered violence and abuse than those who are not. Mental health problems were more strongly linked with violence and abuse than with poverty, with 55 per cent of women living in poverty who had been abused experiencing anxiety or depression, compared with 17 per cent of women in poverty who had not been abused. Women experiencing extensive abuse and poverty were also more likely to be homeless, 21 per cent, compared with 3 per cent of women in poverty who had not been abused. The report concludes that being poor can make women and girls more vulnerable to perpetrators of abuse and prevent them from escaping abusive situations, while the impact of abuse can trap women in poverty. Based on the findings the report makes recommendations for policy makers, service providers and practitioners. (Edited publisher abstract)
Hidden hurt: violence, abuse and disadvantage in the lives of women
- Authors:
- SCOTT Sara, McMANUS Sally
- Publisher:
- Agenda
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 41
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents a picture of both the scale of violence and abuse women face, the nature of their experiences, and how the life chances of women experiencing the most extensive violence and abuse differ from the rest of the population. Drawing on the analysis of the Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) data, it provides evidence of the extent to which women who experience the most extensive abuse and violence (both as children and adults) are more likely to face other adverse circumstances, such as poor mental and physical health, poverty, debt, difficulties finding employment, poor housing and homelessness, disability, and substance misuse problems. The report shows that overall, women are twice as likely as men to experience interpersonal violence and abuse, and the more extensive the violence the more likely that it is experienced by women rather than men. Women’s greater exposure to violence and abuse may go some way to explaining their higher rate of mental illness. In addition, women with extensive experience of physical and sexual violence are far more likely to experience disadvantage in many other areas of their lives, including disability and ill health, substance dependence, poverty and debt, poor living conditions, homelessness and discrimination. (Edited publisher abstract)
Depression and alcohol dependence among poor women: before and after welfare reform
- Authors:
- ROTE Sunshine, QUADAGNO Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 85(2), June 2011, pp.229-245.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The 1996 legislation requires mothers to work in return for assistance and limits total lifetime TANF eligibility to 60 months. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of PRWORA on the mental health status of welfare recipients. The study uses data from the 1995 and 2006 waves of the National Survey of Drug Use and Health. Depressive and alcohol dependent symptoms among welfare recipients and other poor women were examined before PRWORA was enacted (1995) and 10 years after its passage (2006). The results suggest that, before PRWORA, welfare recipients did not differ from other poor women in depressive or alcohol dependence symptoms. Ten years after reform, welfare recipients experienced more depressive symptoms than other poor women. The findings suggest that welfare reform has left unusually symptomatic women on the rolls. Mental health services are critical for these women if they are to succeed in making the transition from welfare to work.
Personal and political?: exploring the feminization of the American homeless population
- Authors:
- RICHARDS Tara N., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Poverty, 14(1), January 2010, pp.97-115.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Women and children are said to be disproportionately affected by the root causes of homelessness. The authors examined self-reported differences between male and female homelessness from a feminist perspective. A convenience sample of homeless individuals in a mid-size southern city of the US was interviewed (n=105, 50.5% female, mean age 41.61 years). The data suggest that while some root causes of homelessness, such as poverty, lack of affordable housing, cut backs in the welfare system, mental illness, drug dependency, and lack of state support, are seen throughout the homeless population, domestic violence and sexual abuse disproportionately impacts women. The interviews reveal that women may be less likely to become homeless than their men but when they do they are more likely to report family and economic-related reasons for becoming homeless. Recent national statistics indicate that, of the 3.5 million people who are homeless, 17% are women and 39% are children. In the current research 60% of the women had at east one child under 18. The authors propose that it is the dual nature of victimisation (personal and political) that has resulted in the steadily increasing female homeless population.
Psychiatric disorders and substance dependence among unmarried low-income mothers
- Authors:
- ROSEN Daniel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 28(2), May 2003, pp.157-165.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the prevalence of mental health problems and the sociodemographic factors associated with having such problems in a sample of 185 single mothers. Logistic regression analysis revealed that race (being white) and being on welfare were associated with increased risk .
Meeting the mental health needs of older women: taking social inequality into account
- Authors:
- MILNE Alisoun, WILLIAMS Jennie
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(6), November 2000, pp.699-723.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Whilst there is increasing acceptance that social inequalities have implications for mental health, there is minimal acknowledgement of their effects on the development and treatment of mental ill health in older people. This article focuses on older women, as they are the majority sufferers of mental illness in later life, and are particularly vulnerable to the cumulative effects of lifelong and age-related inequalities. Draws on literature from the fields of gerontology and mental health and argues that for effective care to be developed, older women's mental ill health needs to be seen within the context of their past and present experience of social inequalities. Evidence particularly relates to socio-economic disadvantages as well as to the consequences of discrimination. Argues that psychological vulnerability is further compounded by the gendered effects of social policy, and by care system which constructs mental health needs as unrelated to oppression, and dislocated from their economic, social and historical roots. Finally outlines the key components of care and service system which takes account of social inequalities, and which accords centrality to the experiences, views and women opinions of older women with mental health problems.