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IJE Advance Access published online on July 20, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym141
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Socioeconomic position and common mental disorders: what do we need to know?

Petros Skapinakis1,2

1Academic Unit of Psychiatry, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK.
2Department of Psychiatry, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece.

E-mail: p.skapinakis@bristol.ac.uk

Accepted 11 June 2007

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Studies of the association between socioeconomic status and mental disorders have a long history and one early example is the 1939 Chicago study conducted by Faris and Dunham.1 These researchers used aggregate data and reported an association between admission for schizophrenia and living in a deprived neighbourhood. Later studies on the association between severe mental disorders and socioeconomic status generally confirmed these early observations.2 The controversy remained on the explanation of this finding with two competing explanations (social causation vs social selection/social drift). There are arguments in favour of both2, although recent epidemiological research has challenged the more traditional social drift hypothesis.3

Common mental disorders is a term mainly used in Britain . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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