Canada Mental Health Study

How the first Native people arrived has always been shrouded with mystery, yet there have been theorists to suggest they came in one way or another. “Heavily glaciated during the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age), the early prehistory of Canada mirrors the withdrawal of the Ice” (Lightfoot 2009: 249). The Laurentide sheet and the smaller Cordilleran ice sheet had created floors of the Chukchi and the Bering Sea, creating a bridge between Asia and Alaska. This bridge has been presumed to be the route in which our long ago ancestors first entered the New World. It was then though Beringa, humans then begun to create settlements all over

Better research on immigrant health and health outcomes would go a long way to shining a light on how to tackle these problems. The current debate in the research concentrates on social determinants of health such as acculturation, which of course influences a lot of other health and healthcare decisions made by immigrants. However, only focusing on social determinants of health undermines the importance of other factors that also heavily affect immigrant health in the United States. Specifically in the case of undocumented immigrants, the debate need to focus on systemic issues impeding access to healthcare as well as pre and post migratory social, political, and economic factors. Some examples that Martinez et al listed include, “specific environmental conditions such as pollution and contamination of water, as well as pre-and-post migration experiences ranging from rape, sexual assault, and abuse to extortion and several other specific geopolitical and economic factors” (966). Social strife, political persecution or famines are real problems that can affect an individuals’ health and specifically their mental health for the rest of their lives. Torres et al urge “those involved in public health research, policy, and practice” to

This study examines two important aspects of the mental and physical health of immigrants and this was referred to as the ‘healthy immigrant effect’. The article compares the mental health of immigrants and minorities in Canada to those who are Canadian (native born), or were brought to Canada at a young age. It shows that the mental health of Asians and Blacks was significantly better compared to their native born Canadian counterparts. Latin American men were also found to have better mental health compared to their native born Canadian counterparts. Even though mental health declines the longer they reside in Canada, evidence has suggested that living among your community is a factor that helps immigrants’ mental health. The weakness in

Of all social determinants of health, we can agree that the most insidious and universal might be poverty because this economic factor influence health in several ways, and it can be both physically and mentally damaging. Poverty affects every aspect of our lives; it determines the distribution of resources; the food we can afford, the access and ability to health care, the level

The vulnerable population of low income clients encompasses a large range of people who encounter special challenges other than just their income that contributes to the stratification of their vulnerability. Low-income families have “stressful social disorganization” as a normative reality of life, often needing additional support services in order to survive. The low-income population is normally represented by poverty, destitution, and unemployment. Many in this classification have not finished high school; do not have or seek proper medical care; they do not have affordable housing and insufficient food, decent clothing, poor parenting skills, unemployment, and they do not have any trade skills to acquire

Once one is stuck in poverty due to mental illness, it is almost impossible to get out of the vicious cycle. Advancing Science, Serving Society’s magazine, Science, did a report on the psychology of poverty. In this article, it states, “In addition to happiness and life satisfaction, poverty is also more broadly related to mental health. According to the 2003 World Health Report, the poorest population quintiles in rich countries exhibit a depression and anxiety disorder prevalence that is 1.5 to 2 times as high as that of the richest quintiles”. This shows that poorer people, such

Unfortunately, these communities fail to help these women to access the help they need and depression continues to be a major factor for low-income community women. Physical health creates high levels of stress, where there are positive and negative issues that correlate between mental and physical health, as physical health affects mental health in many different ways.

This essay will explain how contemporary issues in mental health influence people’s social wellbeing. Mental health is a fundamental element of resilience, health assets, capabilities and positive adaption that enable individuals to cope with both adversity and to reach their full potential and humanity. The impact on inequalities of health and other outcomes are sourced from mental health. For example, chronic stress of struggling with material disadvantage is intensified to a very considerable degree by doing so in more unequal societies.

Socioeconomic status can encompass quality of life attributes as well as the opportunities and privileges afforded to people within society. Poverty, specifically, is not a single factor, but rather is characterized by multiple physical and psychosocial stresses. Further, SES is a consistent and reliable predictor of a vast array of outcomes across the life span, including physical and psychological health. Thus, SES is relevant to all realms of behavioral and social science, including research, practice, education and advocacy.”

Being a first world country we have complications when defining the extent of poverty that we actually see in our nation. In third world countries when mentioning the word poverty people often will instantly think of starvation and although we do have many cases similar in the US we don’t actually have mass starvations. Staff writer Happy Carlock addresses the issue in her article “A Different Type of Poverty” when she claims that “Even though we don't have starvation, we do have an amount of poverty that leads to malnutrition that leads to a series of diseases that we don't tend to associate with First World countries”. So although we may be better off were still in a frightening place considering we face several chronic health issues that are both physical and psychological. Danielle Kurtzleben claims in her article “American in Poverty at Greater Risk for Chronic Health Problems” that “Of the illnesses tracked in a Gallup report on the data, depression has the greatest gap between those in poverty and not in poverty. Nearly 31 percent of adults who lived below the poverty line in 2011 said they had been diagnosed with depression at some point, almost twice as high as the rate for those not in poverty — 15.8 percent. “Illustrating to the readers that depression appears to disproportionately affect those in poverty, and the issues that these people face can extend past

These are the increased in people with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem” (“Poverty and Poor Health”). These have been emotional problems that changes how people feel about living their lives. Many of those in that state of mind are vulnerable of being stuck in it and this can lead to more serious problems like suicide. In addition, “there are also difficulties of getting along with peers, having ADHD, and conduct disorder” (“Poverty and Poor Health”). This can result in the way people act when they are out in public areas and how they express their feelings towards other people. “As well as bad decision making and becoming more irresponsible can be considered an effect of poverty within the mind” (“Childhood Poverty”). Having this makes a person hate whom he or she has become and may lead to serious conflicts later in life. This is all based on how people were raised below the poverty line and how easily it makes them more vulnerable to commit mistakes than the normal average people who live above the

Children living in poverty are three times likely to suffer from mental health problems, 13 times likely to die from accidental injury, more likely to be ill and miss school compared to children from affluent family. (Children’s society, 2013) It can affect them well into their adulthood; children in poorest family are more likely to suffer poor physical and mental health at age 33. (Children’s society, 2013)

One question that is commonly asked is whether mental and physical illness can really jeopardize people living in poverty. According to The Line, “Poverty can cause a sort of PTSD or trauma.” It has been proven by numerous experts that poverty can actually cause

Poverty can have a substantial impact on both mental and physical well-being. People with low socioeconomic status have stressful lives that can be plagued with poor physical health and malnutrition. Low wages, lack of savings,

1. According to Sapolsky, poverty and illness is a cycle in which they both affect each other. There are many aspects of poverty that lead to illness, such as limited access to healthy water, food, healthcare, and most importantly, healthy living conditions. A healthy living condition includes having a clean place to live, feeling trust and efficacy within the community, and overall having the feeling and belief that they are living in healthy conditions. Sapolsky notes that it is psychologically knowing and believing that there is no hope and that one is in a position of weakness is what leads the poor to illness. Beyond doctors and medicine, if