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Course Code

LDR

Course Number

3905

Faculty/Instructor

Donna Mercado

About the Author

My name is Andrei Nesterenko, I am a Junior Biomedical Neuroscience Major. I used no community partners, though was able to combine my discipline with social change, the likes of which I feel the LEAD Program strives to work in.

Abstract, Summary, or Creative Statement

This poster seeks to summarize the current work done connecting schizophrenia and socioeconomic status, with the hypothesis that low SES will positively correlate with Schizophrenia incidence. The work was completed through searches on Google Scholar and PubMed and then synthesizes. Takeaways from this work include: 1, Schizophrenia, though having a strong genetic component, is still heavily affected by environmental factors, many of which, including occupation, grow worse in lower income communities. The natural progression to this is that treatment plans must address these environmental components and not only the biological component. There are many such successful approaches, typically blending housing availability and the formation of healthy communities to alleviate such strain.

Keywords

Schizophrenia, SES, Socioeconomic Status

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Spring Jan 1st, 12:00 AM

Low Socioeconomic Status and Schizophrenia

This poster seeks to summarize the current work done connecting schizophrenia and socioeconomic status, with the hypothesis that low SES will positively correlate with Schizophrenia incidence. The work was completed through searches on Google Scholar and PubMed and then synthesizes. Takeaways from this work include: 1, Schizophrenia, though having a strong genetic component, is still heavily affected by environmental factors, many of which, including occupation, grow worse in lower income communities. The natural progression to this is that treatment plans must address these environmental components and not only the biological component. There are many such successful approaches, typically blending housing availability and the formation of healthy communities to alleviate such strain.