The Intergenerational Transmission of Depression in South African Adolescents

Katherine Eyal and Justine Burns
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Justine Burns: School of Economics, University of Cape Town

No 200, SALDRU Working Papers from Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Abstract: Nationally representative data to measure mental health is rare in South Africa. Estimates of the size of the intergenerational transmission of depression in Africa, and in South Africa, are not numerous, in particular using recent nationally representative data, or in the adolescent sample. South Africa has high rates of depression compared to other countries, in particular among adolescents. Very little mental health treatment is available to adolescents, and the results of poor mental health during adolescence are many - including earlier child bearing, poor education, higher levels of HIV infection and low rates of future employment, among others.

Keywords: Mental health; depression; adolescents; National Income Dynamic Study; South Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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