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Mental Health in context : Impact of social structures and the built environment on mental wellbeing and mental distress

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العنوان: Mental Health in context : Impact of social structures and the built environment on mental wellbeing and mental distress
المؤلفون: Dreger, Stefanie
نوع الوثيقة: Electronic Resource
مستخلص: Introduction: Not only individual factors but also factors of the social and built environment influence mental distress and ill-health and mental wellbeing. This dissertation aimed to gain further insight into the relationship between individually attributed factors of the social and built environment and mental distress and mental wellbeing. The first objective was to investigate prevalences and variations in mental health by characteristics at the individual level. The second objective was to assess the relationship between social structures at the macro level (here the focused factor was on welfare regimes) and mental health. The third objective was to investigate the relationship between factors of the built environment at the meso level (here the focused factor was environmental noise) and mental health. Methods: The three objectives were addressed by four conceptually independent but topic wise interrelated studies: i) material, psychosocial and sociodemographic determinants of mental wellbeing in Europe, ii) socioeconomic determinants of mental distress and mental wellbeing in school children iii) association between gender, welfare regimes and mental wellbeing, and iv) noise and mental distress in school-aged children. Data from the third wave of the European Quality of Life Survey (2011-2012) and the Health Monitoring Units in Bavaria served as the basis for these studies. Odds ratios were calculated using multilevel and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Poisson regression analyses were used to calculate relative risks for the incidences. Results: In adults material, psychosocial and sociodemographic factors were independently associated with low levels of mental wellbeing. In children, the analyses showed that several indicators of familiesa social disadvantage were associated with mental distress, in contrast to mental wellbeing, where only a few factors were associated. At the macro level prevalence of good mental wellbeing was in most instance
مصطلحات الفهرس: mental wellbeing, mental health, mental distress, context, noise, welfare state regime, determinants
URL: http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/peid=D00105780
الاتاحة: Open access content. Open access content
ملاحظة: English
Other Numbers: GWSUB oai:elib.suub.uni-bremen.de:DISS/00105780
1362734146
المصدر المساهم: STAATS UND UNIV BREMEN
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