A LOT of the deaths in the category of “individual behaviour” are just diseases of poverty and/or society. Like come on, depression, drug & alcohol use, and road deaths are not even close to entirely individual.
Your comment sent me on a quick exploration. I was not sure how strong the connection between depression and poverty was.
On the one hand, poverty is associated with constant stress of all kinds, from material considerations to social stigma. On the other hand, wealthier people and societies lose their vertical social capital, which on its own could lead to loneliness. Additionally, wealthier people and societies can undergo radical changes of any kind, and that could lead to the anomie that Émile Durkheim described in the 19th century.
A LOT of the deaths in the category of “individual behaviour” are just diseases of poverty and/or society. Like come on, depression, drug & alcohol use, and road deaths are not even close to entirely individual.
Your comment sent me on a quick exploration. I was not sure how strong the connection between depression and poverty was.
On the one hand, poverty is associated with constant stress of all kinds, from material considerations to social stigma. On the other hand, wealthier people and societies lose their vertical social capital, which on its own could lead to loneliness. Additionally, wealthier people and societies can undergo radical changes of any kind, and that could lead to the anomie that Émile Durkheim described in the 19th century.
Turns out, inequality is shit for mental health https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5775138/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9140340/#%3A~%3Atext=Depression+prevalence%2Cthese+associations.&text=In+comparison%2Ctimes%2C+respectively.&text=About+35%25%2Clow-PIR+have