Healthcare - Mental Illnesses in Caribbean Societies

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Introduction
The international community distinguishes that mental health is vital to human growth
and has been critical in determining physical health conditions, wellbeing and socio-
economic consequences. There has been increasing concerns regarding the growing
prevalence of mental illness among individuals within the Caribbean regions (Brown &
Bodden, 2017). The following paper will conduct a review of literature focusing on the
significant increase of mental illnesses in Caribbean societies.
Problem statement: Regardless of the higher level of understanding of the increasing rate of
mental illnesses, there has been shortage of reliable evidence in facilitate the understanding of
possible sources of these problems. Similar to other nations, the Caribbean region tends to
elucidate that stigma has been linked to mental illness.
Research question: What is the association of social and economic influences to mental
illnesses amongst populaces of the Caribbean regions?
Literature Review
Social and economic factors are considered as vital determinants of health conditions.
In the study of Lacey, Sears, Crawford, Matusko and Jackson (2016), a multistage probability
research has been showed on heads of households in Guyana whereby lower odds of
depressions amongst more accomplished participants have been found. Considering the
average high poverty rates, it has been expected that several individuals living in the
Caribbean region possibly will experience higher pressure of morbidity as well as early
mortality. On the other hand, Mascayano, Tapia, Schilling, Alvarado & Tapia et al. (2016) by
drawing insights from previous study have hypothesized adapted labelling theory which
elucidates the development by which stigmatization of intellectual illnesses tends to occur.
Furthermore, results of Brazilian studies related to stigma from clinical experts exhibited