Economic inequality is related to cross-national prevalence of psychotic symptoms

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1799-1807

  Johnson, Sheri L ^a,d   Wibbels, Erik ^b,d   Wilkinson, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national prevalence; Delusions; Hallucinations; Income inequality; Mental health; Psychotic symptoms

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCOME; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84947617653     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-015-1112-4     Document Type: Article

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