Sex Pattern of Admissions to Mental Hospitals in Relation to Social Circumstances

Lowe, C. R.; Garratt, F.N.

doi:10.1136/jech.13.2.88

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“…However, we did not find the expected higher risks of mental disorders among women in 1900 as seen in most contemporary populations [1,2,5,6] or in studies of historical asylum populations [8,9]. The reversal in risks we identified in the early 20th century is instead consistent with historical studies on aggregate admission rates in England and Wales [10,11]. Additionally, this reversal suggests that any neurobiological sex differences contributing to women's worse mental health [12,13] were significantly modified by social factors.…”

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“…Sweden is no exception; since the 1990s socioeconomic and gendered gaps in self-rated mental health and psychiatric diagnosis have widened [7]. Historical studies based on admission rates in 19th-and early 20th-century Europe show inconsistent results, women are in some studies more numerous [8,9], and in others, have lower admission rates until the 1920s [10,11].…”

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The emergence of social gaps in mental health: A longitudinal population study in Sweden, 1900-1959

2020

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During the recent decades, social inequalities in mental health have increased and are now one of the most persistent features of contemporary society. There is limited knowledge about when this pattern emerged or whether it has been a historically fixed feature. The objective of this study was to assess whether socioeconomic and gender gaps in mental health changed during the period 1900-1959 in Sweden. We used historical micro data which report all necessary information on individuals' demographic characteristics, occupational attainment and mental disorders (N = 2,450) in a Swedish population of 193,893. Changes over time was tested using multilevel Cox proportional hazard models. We tested how gender-specific risks of mental disorder changed and how gender-specific socioeconomic status was related to risks of mental disorder later in life. We found a reversal in gender gaps in mental health during the study period. Women had a lower risk than men in 1900 and higher risks in 1959. For men, we found a negative gradient in SES risks in 1900 and a positive gradient in 1959. For women, we found no clear SES gradient in the risk of mental disorder. These findings suggest that the contemporary patterns in socioeconomic and gender gaps in mental disorder emerged during the 1940s and 1950s and have since then persisted.

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The emergence of social gaps in mental health: A longitudinal population study in Sweden, 1900-1959

2020

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“…For marital status, the effects seem to be that married men appear to be relatively more 'protected' from depression than are not-nowmarried men; this effect has not been so marked for women and sometimes (for women) the reverse effect has been reported. There are cohort effects on gender differences in referral, such that referral rates for men may be similar to, or higher than that of women (Lowe & Garratt, 1959;Cochrane, 1983).…”

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Gender and depression in Anglo-Jewry

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SYNOPSISThis study found similar prevalence of case depression among men as among women in a sample of 339 Jews affiliated to orthodox synagogues (157 men and 182 women). There were significant gender differences in several social–situational factors and symptoms, mostly in the direction that would suggest that case depression would be higher among women than among men. That this was not so is suggested to be the result of the cultural milieu: social factors that have been found to be associated with depression in other groups of people did not function as risk or vulnerability factors among the Jews studied. In particular, the evidence indicates the importance of specific cultural–religious values in contributing towards the prevalences that were observed. These values included the esteem attached to women's central role in family management and the low use of alcohol and suicide as escape routes from depression.

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Use of Hospital Admissions In Epidemiologic Studies Of Mental Disease

Terris¹

1965

Arch Gen Psychiatry

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Sex Pattern of Admissions to Mental Hospitals in Relation to Social Circumstances

Cited by 4 publications

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The emergence of social gaps in mental health: A longitudinal population study in Sweden, 1900-1959

The emergence of social gaps in mental health: A longitudinal population study in Sweden, 1900-1959

Gender and depression in Anglo-Jewry

Use of Hospital Admissions In Epidemiologic Studies Of Mental Disease

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