What are we trying to do?

We want to apply a ‘poverty measure’ to mental health-related outcomes and use this to explore mental health trends over time across generations of people.

 

 

Why is this important?

This work will place a spotlight on mental health inequalities across generations of people and will provide a foundation to explore why these inequalities exist.

 

The mental health poverty measure will provide a way of exploring what inequalities there are and where they happen. It will be a tool that can be developed to classify poor mental health among different people.

 

Usually, ‘average levels’ are used to measure mental health among different groups of people. But we suggest that exploring mental health poverty through a ‘poverty measure’ will reveal more insights than relying on ‘average levels’.

 

 

How are we doing it?

We are using data from The UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), which is a large database of information about people living in the UK that has been collected via surveys. We are using this data to do a temporal analysis.

 

 

Funding information

This project is funded via the Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Round 4) NIHR302772 funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

 

 

More information

 

 

Senior Programme Lead

Mike Spence
Mike.spence@healthinnovationmanchester.com