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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2004) 10: 216-224
© 2004 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Poverty, social inequality and mental health

Vijaya Murali and Femi Oyebode

Vijaya Murali is a specialist registrar in general adult psychiatry (Cossham Hospital, Lodge Road, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 1LF, UK. E-mail: Lmurali{at}aol.com), with special interests in alcohol and substance misuse, and psychiatric intensive care. Current research includes a study of sleep disturbance in alcohol dependence. Femi Oyebode is Professor of Psychiatry at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham.

The World Health Organization has described poverty as the greatest cause of suffering on earth. This article considers the direct and indirect effects of relative poverty on the development of emotional, behavioural and psychiatric problems, in the context of the growing inequality between rich and poor. The problems of children in particular are reviewed. Targets to reduce inequality have been set both nationally and internationally.




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