Earlier this year a prospective PhD supervisor blogged for us about recruiting for a PhD scholarship focused on historically marginalised groups and mental health inequalities. That student is Alua Yeskendir, who provides this post on new research summarising the current state of the evidence around the social determinants of mental health.

We used to see mental health problems as primarily a biological phenomenon. But is it true? If we say that your mental health also depends on the distribution of social, economic and political wealth, power, and resources, does it make easier to solve the problem?