HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natural Environment, Social Capital, Social Stigma
6 Nov 2017
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Social housing built by the british government for the poor. Often huge - sometimes tens of thousands of people living there. At first, high suspiciousness, isolation, depression and anxiety - when people in the estate were surveyed. As a social housing unit the government was responsible for upkeep. So halpern did things like - changing the lighting, cleaning up the alleys, putting up. In pretty dire conditions when the research began fencing between small yards. Depression and anxiety both dropped - people felt more trusting etc. Recall debate between categorical (disorder) model vs. dimensional (distress) model. If we think of mental health as a continuum of human experience and emotion - we all experience emotions just to greater or lesser degrees. Problematic study designs: testing whether poverty causes depression (e. x. ) describes all individuals as mentally healthy so long as they don"t meet criteria for depression - but what about other mental health issues.
