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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2018

Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.

Margarita Alegría, Amanda NeMoyer, Irene Falgàs Bagué, Ye Wang, Kiara Alvarez

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 391 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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391citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

391 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. A meta-analysis of the role of neighborhood deprivation in psychotic disorders.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025
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  14. Return to Work or Not: The Paths to Psychiatric Disability and Back.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026
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  20. The Impact of Redlining on Mental Health.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Margarita AlegríaDisparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 830, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. malegria@mgh.harvard.edu.
Amanda NeMoyerDisparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 830, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Irene Falgàs BaguéDisparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 830, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Ye WangDisparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 830, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Kiara AlvarezDisparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 830, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.

Funding

Health Policy Training Program: Promoting Outcomes, Quality, Equity and Diffusion of AdvancesT32MH019733 · NIMH · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI Benjamin Le Cook, Haiden A Huskamp · 1993 to 2026
$7.0M
Mechanisms Underlying Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mental DisordersR01MD009719 · NIMHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ALEGRIA, MARGARITA · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
Early Intervention for Suicide Risk among Immigrant YouthK23MH112841 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ALVAREZ, KIARA · 2017 to 2021
$821k
NIMHD NIH HHS R01 MD009719NIMH NIH HHS K23 MH112841NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH019733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThe present review synthesizes recent literature on social determinants and mental health outcomes and provides recommendations for how to advance the field. We summarize current studies related to changes in the conceptualization of social determinants, how social determinants impact mental health, what we have learned from social determinant interventions, and new methods to collect, use, and analyze social determinant data. RECENT

findingsRecent research has increasingly focused on interactions between multiple social determinants, interventions to address upstream causes of mental health challenges, and use of simulation models to represent complex systems. However, methodological challenges and inconsistent findings prevent a definitive understanding of which social determinants should be addressed to improve mental health, and within what populations these interventions may be most effective. Recent advances in strategies to collect, evaluate, and analyze social determinants suggest the potential to better appraise their impact and to implement relevant interventions.

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Mental HealthSocial Determinants of HealthHumansInterventionsMental healthPublic healthSocial determinantsVulnerable populations

Identifiers

PMID30221308
PMCPMC6181118

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