Mental health etiology: Social determinants

International Encyclopedia of Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 350-353

  Cohen, A ^a   Minas, H ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene environment interactions; Mental disorders; Neighborhoods; Occupation; Race ethnicity; Social capital; Social causation; Social change; Social determinants; Social drift; Socioeconomic status; Stress models of psychopathology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884463641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373960-5.00041-1     Document Type: Chapter

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