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Economic Recession and Mental Health: An Analysis

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This chapter looks at the interrelationship between economic recession and mental health. The world has been fraught with many economic recessions, and this chapter provides an overview of various effects that economic recession may have on mental health at an individual, family, and epidemiological level. Various economic recessions that have affected humanity across the world are outlined. Suicide, depression, and various mental health problems resulting from an economic recession are discussed. There is also a discussion of management strategies for the same at an individual, group, and policy level. There is also a need for mental health services to be easily available at the time of economic recessions to reduce that negative outcomes that may ensue due to the same.

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  1. Complex and Community Care Division, Parkwood Institute of Mental Health FLEX 2, London, ON, Canada

    Amresh Shrivastava

  2. Ambulatory Care and Department of Psychiatry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

    Amresh Shrivastava

  3. Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada

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  4. Desousa Foundation, Mumbai, India

    Pragya Lodha & Avinash De Sousa

  5. Department of Psychology, Maniben Nanavati Women’s College, Mumbai, India

    Pragya Lodha

  6. Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai, India

    Avinash De Sousa

  7. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Nikate Singh

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Shrivastava, A., Lodha, P., De Sousa, A., Singh, N. (2019). Economic Recession and Mental Health: An Analysis. In: Javed, A., Fountoulakis, K. (eds) Advances in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_39

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