ArticleHealth & place2024
"They're not mentally ill, their lives are just shit": Stakeholders' understanding of deaths of despair in a deindustrialised community in North East England.
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- Qualitative evidence for the determinants of deaths of despair: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Industrial legacies: a population survey study of mental health disparities across generations in post-coal Wales.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2026Article
- Deaths of despair in England, 2014-2022: trends by sex and socioeconomic deprivation before and after COVID-19.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- A Cycle of Social Violence: a novel theoretical framework for explaining how structural, slow, and symbolic violence interact to produce and maintain health inequalities in England.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Moralisation, stigmatisation, and downstream interventions: How symbolic violence sustains geographic inequalities in deaths of despair in England.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Left behind places, neoliberalism and systemic violence in the UK.Frontiers in sociology · 2025Review
- Anti-mattering mediates the relationship between social-responsibility misalignments and mental health problems in young people.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- "They pulled that funding away and we're not recovering. it's getting worse": deaths of despair in post-austerity north east England.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- "They're Lacking Purpose. It's a Recipe for Suicide.": Masculinity and Gender-Based Inequalities in Deaths of Despair in England.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
The rise in mortality in high-income countries from drug, suicide, and alcohol specific causes, referred to collectively as 'deaths of despair', has received growing interest from researchers. In both the US and UK, mortality rates from deaths of despair are higher in deprived, deindustrialised communities. In this qualitative study, we sought to learn how stakeholders working with vulnerable populations in Middlesbrough, a deindustrialised town in North East England with above average mortality from deaths of despair, understand and explain the prevalence of deaths from these causes in their area. Participants identified a number of structural and socio-cultural determinants that they believe drive deaths of despair in their community, including the effects of austerity, deindustrialisation, communal identity, and collective trauma; we argue that these determinants are themselves a product of structural violence.
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