Relationships Between Poverty and Psychopathology
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- 15 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 290 (15) , 2023-2029
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.290.15.2023
Abstract
The association between poverty and mental illness has been described throughout the world and throughout history.1-9 Clinicians and researchers have noted the difficulty of untangling the effects of "social causation, . . . adversity and stress associated with low social statuses" from those of "social selection, [which] posits that genetically predisposed persons drift down to or fail to rise out of" poverty.10Keywords
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