Relative wealth, subjective social status, and their associations with depression: Cross-sectional, population-based study in rural Uganda

• Main Authors: Meghan L. Smith (Author), Bernard Kakuhikire (Author), Charles Baguma (Author), Justin D. Rasmussen (Author), Jessica M. Perkins (Author), Christine Cooper-Vince (Author), Atheendar S. Venkataramani (Author), Scholastic Ashaba (Author), David R. Bangsberg (Author), Alexander C. Tsai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and has been found to be a consistent correlate of socioeconomic status (SES). The relative deprivation hypothesis proposes that one mechanism linking SES to health involves social comparisons, suggesting that relative SES rather than absolute S...