Anthropological approaches to “immigrant mental health” as an object of ethnographic inquiry can illuminate how psychosocial well-being – or decline and the therapeutic realm health is always enacted by a variety institutions social actors. The ways that understood approached across different geographical settings are constitutive range cultural meanings, norms, relations. authors in this speci...

BACKGROUND Precarious employment has been associated with poor health, but the potential mechanisms are unclear. We examined the relationships between precarious employment and health, and investigated psychosocial working conditions as potential mediators. METHODS A cross-sectional population-based survey was conducted in South Australia in 2009 (N = 1,016 employed). SF-12 measures of mental...

INTRODUCTION The deleterious effects of psychosocial outcomes on diabetic patients' health have not been fully investigated yet. This study was aimed to explore how psychosocial outcomes impacted on the health status of Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS A mix of stratified sampling and typical sampling were used to select diabetic patients in Jiangsu Province to conduct individua...

Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household poverty as well...

There is a great practical need to assess psychosocial factors at work and improve employee well-being. Evidently, poor working conditions and burned-out employees are associated with, for instance, sickness absence, occupational injuries and accidents, poor work performance, and reduced productivity, whereas the opposite is true for good working conditions and employee engagement. So ultimatel...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the psychosocial health of pregnant women and their families, although recommended, is not carried out by most practitioners. One reason is the lack of a practical and evidence-based tool. In response, a multidisciplinary group created the Antenatal Psychosocial Health Assessment (ALPHA) form. This article describes the development of this tool and experience with i...

Previous research has consistently found a significant relationship between socioeconomic inequalities and health status; individuals with lower income, education, and occupational prestige have and report more health problems. Interestingly, this relationship has not been consistent across the life cycle; health differences among adolescents across socioeconomic groups are not as clearly defin...