Psychology & Psychiatry

Eviction can result in depression, poorer health and higher stress

Eviction from a home can have multiple negative consequences for families - including depression, poorer health and higher levels of stress - and the side effects can persist for years, according to new research from sociologists ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Pain of poverty sticks, despite support of neighbors or spouses

Being married or having the support of neighbors to rely on does little to alleviate the symptoms of depression associated with economic hardship often experienced by poor mothers. With these findings, published in Springer's ...

Health

Britain pays mothers to breastfeed under pilot scheme

New mothers in two areas of Britain are to be paid to breastfeed their babies, it was announced Tuesday, under a trial scheme aimed at boosting the practice in poor areas where it is "stigmatised".

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