Inequality, socioeconomic status, and social support in post-disaster mental health in Mexico

Human Organization

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-43

  Jones, Eric ^a   Gupta, Sat ^a   Murphy, Arthur ^a   Norris, Fran ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR PTSD   (United States)

Author keywords

class; depression; hurricane; Latin America; recovery

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

LATIN AMERICA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TABASCO; VILLAHERMOSA;

EID: 79951484623     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.70.1.4h340201207274qj     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Adler, Nancy E., Thomas Boyce, Margaret A Chesney, Sheldon Cohen, Susan Folkman, Robert L. Kahn and S. Leonard Syme 1994 Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Challenge of the Gradient. American Psychologist 49(1):15-24. (Pubitemid 24976661)
2. Antonio, Elías. Balcazar. 2000 Villahermosa: Crónicas y Remembranzas Siglo XX. Villahermosa, Mexico: Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco.
3. Arias, Patricia 1985 Guadalajara, la Gran ciudad de la Peqeueña Industria. Zamora, Spain: El Colegio de Michoacan.
4. Balmori, Diana, Stuart F. Voss, and Miles Wortman 1984 Notable Family Networks in Latin America. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press.
5. Barba, Carlos, and Fernando Pozos 2000 Paradojas Sociales de Jalisco y Sus Regiones. Guadalajara, Mexico: Universida de Guadalajara.
6. Barrera, Manuel 1986 Distinctions Between Social Support Concepts, Measures, and Models. American Journal of Community Psychology 14(4):413-445.
7. Blakely, Tony A., Kimberly Lochner, and Ichiro Kawachi 2002 Metropolitan Area Income Inequality and Self-rated Health: A Multi-Level Study. Social Science and Medicine 54(1):65-77. (Pubitemid 33049872)
8. Blane, David, George Davey Smith, and Mel Bartley 1993 Social Selection: What Does It Contribute to Social Class Differences in Health? Sociology of Health and Illness 15(1):1-15.
9. Bobak, Martin, Hynek Pikhart, Richard Rose, Clyde Hertzman, and Michael Marmot 2000 Socioeconomic Factors, Material Inequalities, and Perceived Control in Self-Rated Health: Cross-Sectional Data From Seven Post-Communist Countries. Social Science and Medicine 51(9):1342-1350.
10. Bogard, Cynthia J., J. Jeff McConnell, Naomi Gerstel, and Michael Schwartz 1999 Homeless Mothers and Depression: Misdirected Policy. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40(1):46-62.
11. Borgatti, Stephen Peter 1992 AnthroPac Methods Guide. Columbia, S.C.: Analytic Technologies.
12. Carey, James W. 1990 Social System Effects on Local Morbidity and Adaptation in the Rural Peruvian Andes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4(3):266-295.
13. Clark, Lauren 1993 Gender and Generation in Poor Women's Household Health Production Experiences. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7(4):386-402.
14. Coburn, David 2004 Beyond the Income Inequality Hypothesis: Class, Neo-Liberalism, and Health Inequalities. Social Science and Medicine 58(1):41-56. (Pubitemid 37336460)
15. Deaton, Angus 2003 Health, Inequality, and Economic Development. Journal of Economic Literature 41(1):113-158. (Pubitemid 38705896)
16. Desjarlais, Robert., Leon Eisenberg, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman 1994 World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities in Low-Income Countries. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
17. Dressler, William W. 1993 Health in the African American Community: Accounting for Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7(4):325-345.
18. Dressler, William W., Mauro Campos Balieiro, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos 1998 Culture, Socioeconomic Status, and Physical and Mental Health in Brazil. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(4):424-446. (Pubitemid 128688822)
19. Dressler, William W., James R. Bindon, and Yasmin H. Neggers 1998 Culture, Socioeconomic Status, and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in an African American Community. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 21(6):527-544. (Pubitemid 29024647)
20. Ferriea, Jane E., Martin J. Shipley, Stephen A. Stansfeld, George Davie Smith, and Michael Marmot 2003 Future Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health: The Whitehall II Study. Social Science and Medicine 57(4):637-646. (Pubitemid 36765360)
21. García, José Luis Olazo 2000 Teziutlán: Historia y Tragedia. Puebla, Mexico: Ecretaria de Cultura.
22. Garza, Gustavo 1987 Condiciones generales de la produccion y concentracion espacial de la industria. El Caso de los hidrocarburos. In Mexico: Problemas Urbano Regionales. Guillermos Boils, ed. Pp. 243-287. Mexico City: G.V. Editores y Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM.
23. Gilman, Stephen E., Ichiro Kawachi, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, and Stephen L. Buka 2002 Socioeconomic Status in Childhood and the Lifetime Risk of Major Depression. International Journal of Epidemiology 31(2):359-367. (Pubitemid 34537793)
24. Godoy, Ricardo A., V. Reyes-García, T. McDade, T. Huanca, W. R. Leonard, S. Tanner, and V. Vadez 2006 Does Village Inequality in Modern Income Harm the Psyche? Anger, Fear, Sadness, and Alcohol Consumption in a Pre-Industrial society. Social Science and Medicine 63(2):359-372. (Pubitemid 43776588)
25. González de la Rocha, Mercedes 1986 Los Recursos de la Pobreza: Familias de Bajos Ingresos en Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico: El Colegio de Jalisco and CIESAS.
26. Guest, Greg 2000 Using Guttman Scaling to Rank Wealth: Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative data. Field Methods 12(4):346-357.
27. Hamilton, V. Lee, Clifford L. Broman, William S. Hoffman, and Deborah S. Renner 1990 Hard Times and Vulnerable People: Initial Effects on Plant Closing on Autoworkers' Mental Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 31(2):123-140. (Pubitemid 20362689)
28. Henderson, Claire, Xinhua Liu, Ana V. Diez Roux, B. G. Link, and Deborah Hasin 2004 The Effects of United States State Income Inequality and Alcohol Policies on Symptoms of Depression and Alcohol Dependence. Social Science and Medicine 58(3):565-575. (Pubitemid 37490885)
29. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) 1999a Puebla: Censos Economicos 1999, Tomo I. Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica.
30. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) 1999b Tabasco: Censos Economicos 1999. Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica.
31. Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica (INEGI) 2001 Anuario Estadistico. Mexico City, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, Geografia e Informatica.
32. Jencson, Linda J. 2001 Disastrous Rites: Liminality and Communitas in a Flood Crisis. Anthropology of Humanism 26(1):46-58.
33. Jones, Eric C., and Arthur D. Murphy 2008 Review of Cross-Cultural Disaster Studies, with Focus on Latin American Populations. In Haciendo las Ciencias Sociales: Libro Homenaje a Fernando Pozos. Fernando Leal, ed. Pp. 317-345. Guadalajara, Mexico: University of Guadalajara.
34. Kaniasty, Krzysztof Z., and Fran H. Norris 2000 Help-Seeking Comfort and Receiving Social Support: The Role of Ethnicity and Context of Need. American Journal of Community Psychology 28(4):545-581.
35. Lavell, Allan T., ed. 1994 Viviendo en Riesgo: Comunidades Vulnerables y Prevencion de Desastres en America Latina. Bogota, Colombia: Tercer Mundo Editores.
36. Legorreta, Jorge 1983 El Proceso de Urbanizacion en Ciudades Petroleras. Mexico City: Centro de Ecodesarrollo.
37. Lomnitz, Larissa 1977 Networks and Marginality: Life in a Mexican Shantytown. New York: Academic Press.
38. Lomnitz, Larissa 1982 Horizontal and Vertical Relations and the Social Structure of Urban Mexico. Latin American Research Review 17(2):51-74.
39. Lomnitz, Larissa 1987 A Mexican Elite Family, 1820-1980: Kinship, Class, and Culture. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
40. Lundberg, Olle 1991 Causal Explanations for Class Inequality in Health: An Empirical Analysis. Social Science and Medicine 32(4):385-393.
41. Lynch, John W., George A. Kaplan, and Jukka T. Salonen 1997 Why Do Poor People Behave Poorly? Variation in Adult Health Behaviors and Psychosocial Characteristics by Stages of the Socioeconomic Lifecourse. Social Science and Medicine 44(6):809-819. (Pubitemid 27117435)
42. Lynch, John W., George D. Smith, Sam Harper, Marianne Hillemeier, Nancy Ross, George A. Kaplan, and Michael Wolfson 2004 Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part I. A Systematic Review. Milbank Quarterly 82(1):5-99. (Pubitemid 38507309)
43. Morris, Earl W. 1991 Household, Kin, and Non-Kin Sources of Assistance in Home Building: The Case of the City of Oaxaca. Urban Anthropology 20(1):49-66.
44. Murphy, Arthur, and Alex Stepick 1991 Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press.
45. Nersesian, William S. 1988 Infant Mortality in Socially Vulnerable Populations. Annual Review of Public Health 9: 361-377. (Pubitemid 19082385)
46. Nguyen, Vinh-Kim, and Karine Peschard 2003 Anthropology, Inequality, and Disease: A Review. Annual Review of Anthropology 32: 447-474. (Pubitemid 38653281)
47. Nolasco, Margarita 1989 Los Municipios de las Fronteras de Mexico. Mexico City: Centro de Ecodesarrollo.
48. Norris Fran H., Matthew J. Friedman, Patricia J. Watson, Christopher M. Byrne, Eolia Diaz, and Krzysztof Kaniasty 2002 60,000 Disaster Victims Speak: Part I. An Empirical Review of the Empirical Literature, 1981-2001. Psychiatry 65(3):207-239. (Pubitemid 35191281)
49. Norris Fran, Charlene Baker, Arthur D. Murphy, and Krzysztof Kaniasty 2005 Social Support Mobilization and Deterioration After Mexico's 1999 Flood: Effects of Context, Gender, and Time. American Journal of Community Psychology 36(1-2):15-28. (Pubitemid 41225126)
50. Norris, Fran, Arthur Murphy, Charlene Baker, and Julia Perilla 2004 Post-Disaster PTSD Over Four Waves of a Panel Study of Mexico's 1999 Flood. Journal of Traumatic Stress 17(4):283-292. (Pubitemid 39178770)
51. Norris, Fran H., Arthur D. Murphy, Charlene. K. Baker, J. L. Perilla, Francisco G. Rodriguez, and José G. Rodriguez 2003 Epidemiology of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Mexico. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 112(4):646-656. (Pubitemid 37509610)
52. Pappas, Gregory, Susan Queen, Wilbur Hadden, and Gail Fisher 1993 The Increasing Disparity in Mortality Between Socioeconomic Groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986. The New England Journal of Medicine 329(2):103-109. (Pubitemid 23188825)
53. Parker, Seymour, and Robert J. Kleiner 1970 The Culture of Poverty: An Adjustive Dimension. American Anthropologist 72(3):516-527.
54. Parry, Glenys 1986 Paid Employment, Life Events, Social Support, and Mental Health in Working-Class Mothers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 27(2):193-208. (Pubitemid 16041321)
55. Patel, Vikram, Ricardo Araya, Mauricio de Lima, Ana Ludermir, and Charles Todd 1999 Women, Poverty, and Common Mental Disorders in Four Restructuring Societies. Social Science and Medicine 49(11):1461-1471. (Pubitemid 29537626)
56. Pozos, Fernando 2003 La Vulnerabilidad Laboral del Modelo Exportador en Mexico. Guadalajara, Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara.
57. Ram, Rati 2006 Further Examination of the Cross-Country Association Between Income Inequality and Population Health. Social Science and Medicine 62(3) 779-791. (Pubitemid 41797031)
58. Schoon, Ingrid, Amanda Sacker, and Mel Bartley 2003 Socioeconomic Adversity and Psychosocial Adjustment: A Developmental-Contextual Perspective. Social Science and Medicine 57(6):1001-1015. (Pubitemid 36876068)
59. Selby, Henry A. 1991 The Oaxacan Urban Household and the Crisis. Urban Anthropology 20(1):87-98.
60. Selby, Henry A., Arthur D. Murphy, and Stephen A. Lorenzen 1990 The Mexican Urban Household: Organizing for Self-Defense. Austin: The University of Texas Press.
61. Selby, Henry A., Arthur D. Murphy, Stephen A. Lorenzen, Ignacio Cabrera, Aida Castañeda, and Ignacio Ruiz. 1994 La Familia en el México Urbano: Mecanismos de Defense Frente a la Crisis (1978-1992). Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.
62. Singer, Merrill 1994 AIDS and the Health Crisis of the United States Urban Poor: The Perspective of Critical Medical Anthropology. Social Science and Medicine 39(7):931-948. (Pubitemid 24264505)
63. Subramanian, S. V., Pablo Belli, and Ichiro Kawachi 2002 The Macroeconomic Determinants of Health. Annual Review of Public Health 23(1):287-302. (Pubitemid 34508076)
64. Thoits, Peggy, and Michael Hannan 1979 Income and Psychological Distress: The Impact of an Income-Maintenance Experiment. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 20(2):120-138. (Pubitemid 9208618)
65. Turner, R. Jay, and Donald A. Lloyd 1999 The Stress Process and the Social Distribution of Depression. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 40(4):374-404.
66. Turner, R. Jay, and Franco Marino 1994 Social Support and Social Structure: A Descriptive Epidemiology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 35(3):193-212.
67. Van Atta, Ralph E. 1999 A Study of the Validity of the MMPI. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Scale: Implications for Forensic Clinicians. Forensic Examiner 8(7-8):20-23.
68. Vélez-Ibañez, Carlos 1983 Rituals of Marginality. Berkeley: University of California Press.
69. Wagstaff, Adam, and E. van Doorslaer 2000 Income Inequality and Health: What Does the Literature Tell Us? Annual Review of Public Health 21s:543-567. (Pubitemid 30480334)
70. Warren, John Robert, Peter Hoonakker, Pascale Carayon, and Jennie Brand 2004 Job Characteristics as Mediators in SES-Health Relationships. Social Science and Medicine 59(7):1367-1378. (Pubitemid 38891405)
71. West, Robert C. 1998 Sonora: Its Geographical Personality. Austin: University of Texas Press.
72. Whitehead, Margaret, Göran Dahlgren, and Timothy Evans 2001 Equity and Health Sector Reforms: Can Low-Income Countries Escape the Medical Poverty Trap? The Lancet 358(9284):833-836. (Pubitemid 32868741)
73. Wildman, John 2003 Income Related Inequalities in Mental Health in Great Britain: Analyzing the Causes of Health Inequality Over Time. Journal of Health Economics 22(2):295-312. (Pubitemid 36279397)
74. Winter, Mary 1991 Interhousehold Exchange in Foods and Services in the City of Oaxaca. Urban Anthropology 20(1):67-86.
75. World Health Organization (WHO) 1997 Composite International Diagnostic Inventory, Version 2.1. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.