The mental health effects of same-sex marriage legalisation
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph De Haas, Kevin Tran According to recent estimates, in 2017 971 million people worldwide suffered mental health issues (GBD 2017 Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators, 2018). Among these, 264 million had depression (of which 163 million cases were major ones) and 284 million had anxiety disorders. Mental disorders may have important adverse individual effects including reduced employment and lower earnings (Ridley et al. 2020). There has existed a substantial mental health gap in sexual orientation that may be attributed ...
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