ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the link between suicide and disadvantage more closely, and rests false assumptions about suicide and mental illness. It discusses strong correlation between low socioeconomic status and suicide. The correlation between income and mortality was particularly strong in areas that lacked significant investment in social spending for poorer residents, and where those residents had lower education levels. The chapter analyses how suicide is distributed between social classes and professions in France, England, and the United States have shown markedly higher rates for people in lower or working classes than those employed in higher-income, professional, management, and intellectual positions. Unfortunately, the Americans with Disabilities Act's is rarely followed by employers, much less upheld in courts, as numerous legal analyses have found. Reducing stigma and discrimination toward the mentally ill is also clearly essential to improving employment status in conjunction with suicide risk. The policy recommendations go hand in hand with the practice recommendations.
