Addressing sociopolitical determinants of mental health: an emerging challenge in Hong Kong
Published:January 09, 2020
Both the socioecological model and WHO suggest that adverse social and structural factors, including sociopolitical conflicts, human rights violations, and discrimination, substantially affect distribution of political power, resource allocation, and health status.
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Recently, the movement against the extradition bill proposed in Hong Kong last year and the ongoing social unrest have revealed pressing human rights concerns and a desire for democracy that could affect all citizens emotionally, socially, and economically.
In The Lancet, Michael Ni and colleagues
report the prevalence of probable depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, potential sociopolitical factors that might be associated with these conditions, and the estimated mental health-care needs of the population during the ongoing 2019–20 social unrest in Hong Kong. Using data covering nine timepoints between 2009 and 2019, with random samples drawn from wave 2 of the prospective population-based FAMILY Cohort study, the authors compared 2019 findings (waves 8 and 9) with data collected during (waves 3 and 4) and after (waves 5, 6, and 7) the 2014 Occupy Central Movement—another period of social unrest—and baseline data from 2009–14 (waves 1 and 2).
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