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Short Cuts: Poor people more likely to suffer mental illness

1999-07-15T00:00:00

A study of mental illness in Glasgow has found a strong link with poverty. The Greater Glasgow health board study says poorer people are almost three times as likely to commit suicide and six times as likely to be committed to hospital for schizophrenia as people from more affluent areas.

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