May 24, 2013
Friday Round-Up: This Week in the News
- “Mental health campaigners said GPs needed to be aware of such disparities when deciding how to commission resources for treatment and support.” Women 40% More Likely Than Men to Develop Mental Illness, Study Finds (The Guardian)
- “At issue are questions as fundamental as how long we grieve, what clinical label we assign to sadness, and when grief transforms into mental illness.” Can Grief be a Mental Illness? With New Diagnostic Changes, Maybe (The Washington Post)
- “In 2011, the suburban poor outnumbered the urban poor by three million; from 2000 to 2011, the number of poor people soared by 64 percent in the suburbs, compared with 29 percent in cities.” Cul-de-Sac Poverty (The New York Times)