Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Mental Health Outcomes: A Public Health Perspective
Reetika Kashyap
2025-11-13
2026-01-31
2026-02-15
Abstract
Good mental health is having the capacity to think and rationalize as well as to feel emotions, act, and deal with day-to-day stressors. It is intrinsic to people's well-being. However, in people, mental health problems pose the biggest public health threat in the world. Such conditions include value-degrading disorders, diseases, and disabilities along with the mental problems of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse, severe lunacy like schizophrenia and others; they encompass all age demographics and all societies; affecting hundreds of millions of people. While there are biological and psychological factors to consider in the development of the mental health issues, there is a growing body of evidence stressing the great effects of the social and economic surroundings. Out of the myriad of social and economic factors, socioeconomic status (SES) has been positively and undoubtedly determined to be the most influential and omnipresent