#17 How a recession for Australia will impact mental health

What mental health outcomes can we expect with a contracting economy? What about the longer term mental health impacts we are expecting as a result of other changes to our society as a result of Covid, the war in Ukraine, and in the UK, Brexit? 

During and after economic crashes, a great many people are white knuckling as a result of losing their jobs, or in fear of losing their jobs, and a lot of these people, either attempt to, or sadly take their own lives. In other words, global and local financial and political circumstances are intimately related to our mental health. 

In part two of this conversation series with Professor Kinderman, we learn how social factors, and not our individual biologies, are the primary determinants of our mental health.

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Links from the show:

• Trends in the numbers of suicides and unemployment claimants in England, 2000-10, by sex: https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e5142
• Australian male suicide rate over age: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/FlagPost/2019/June/Mens_health

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