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Employment status and income as potential mediators of educational inequalities in population mental health
- Abstract:
- We assessed whether educational inequalities in mental health may be mediated by employment status and household income. Poor mental health was assessed using General Health Questionnaire 'caseness' in working age adult participants (N = 48 654) of the Health Survey for England (2001-10). Relative indices of inequality by education level were calculated. Substantial inequalities were apparent, with adjustment for employment status and household income markedly reducing their magnitude. Educational inequalities in mental health were attenuated by employment status. Policy responses to economic recession (such as active labour market interventions) might reduce mental health inequalities but longitudinal research is needed to exclude reverse causation.
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1093/eurpub/ckw126
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- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- European Journal of Public Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 814-816
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-04
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-08-08
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1464-360X
- ISSN:
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1101-1262
- Pmid:
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27593454
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English
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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Copyright © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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