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Your original comment claimed that research suggests that improving access to healthcare is "highly unlikely" to change the state of American mental health. I'
by majos 7y ago
Your original comment claimed that research suggests that improving access to healthcare is "highly unlikely" to change the state of American mental health.
I'm not following how this second comment makes that case. It looks like you are extrapolating from "social media use causes poorer mental health" to "access to healthcare and housing are less important to mental health than social media use". The statistics and studies cited don't make this claim, so I don't understand where you're getting it from.
I have no studies in mind that connect mental health and access to healthcare and housing. I was curious if you had studies suggesting the opposite, since the connection appears almost tautologically true to me.
- mfer 7y agoTo use an analogy... when people were smoking a lot of people got lung cancer. Doctors can try to treat that and many people died. Access to health care did not mean that everyone who got care was cured of their lung cancer. Instead, people had to go to the root of the problem. Smoking causing lung cancer. They worked to reduce the rate of smoking to reduce the rate of cancer. This was not related to someone's access to medical treatments because access to medical treatment wasn't a silver bullet fix. The same idea applies here. We talk a lot about healthcare access (and I'm not suggesting that should stop). We don't talk enough about going after what's causing the mental illness and fixing that.