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Lunch Hour Lecture | Unequal mental health: Society, power and the depressogenic environment
10 October 2024, 1:00 pm鈥�2:00 pm
This lunch hour lecture will focus on the case for recognizing the role of the 鈥榙epressogenic鈥� environment.
This event is free.
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- All
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- Yes
Cost
- Free
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UCL Events
About the lecture:
Common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety are leading causes of disease burden worldwide, and there are reports of worsening mental health in many countries. In this talk, I will illustrate how the experience of poor mental health is very unequal within societies 鈥� 聽groups with less political, social and economic power often experience substantially worse mental health. Other inequalities including where we study the development and causes of mental health, which potential causes are prioritised and who we focus on for intervention, will be discussed. I will present the case for recognizing the role of the 鈥榙epressogenic鈥� environment and highlight the importance of understanding where action on social, environmental and policy drivers might benefit the greatest number of people.
This UCL Lunch Hour Lecture forms part of a series organised in partnership with UCL's Grand Challenge of Mental Health & Wellbeing and UCL Workplace Wellbeing.
About the Speaker
Praveetha Patalay
Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing at Workplace Mental Health, UCL
Praveetha Patalay is Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing at 皇家华人. She holds a joint appointment between the Department of Population Science and Experimental Medicine (Faculty of Population Health Sciences) and Centre for Longitudinal Studies (Faculty of Education and Social Science). 聽Her research focuses on mental health through the lifecourse and drivers of health inequalities, with an interest in examining these across different global contexts. She is interested in how we can achieve better health and wellbeing through our lives and the preventive measures and structural changes that might be needed to support this. She leads a multidisciplinary research group at 皇家华人, and is working towards improving the diversity of disciplines, individuals and countries represented in mental health science with the goal to accelerate progress in improving population mental health.