Health and Social Science

Psychological, Sociological & Mental Health

Psychological and sociological factors play the role of internal and external factors in the lives of human beings. They have a direct effect on their overall health and wellbeing, especially their mental health. Most of the time, its sociological factors (homelessness, unemployment, marriage failure etc.) that give birth to psychological factors (Anxiety, withdrawal from responsibilities etc.) in human beings, which in turn affects the mental health and wellbeing of a person in a negative or positive way.

The mental health is the state of mind of a person. It is influenced in a direct manner by these factors.

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In every country, including the United Kingdom the process of exclusion and social segregation as well as the level and extent of relative social deprivation such as homelessness have a major impact on overall physical, mental health and the high mortality rate the of immigrants. The harm and impairment to physical and mental health not only caused by material deprivation, psychological and social problems, especially those arise from economic hardships such as living in poverty can also put enormous impact on overall health of a person. Homelessness due to poverty and unemployment has increased in number of countries, including some of the richest such as UK. Poverty always leads to worse health conditions of a population and increase the risk of premature death.

Moreover, people who are facing economic hardships for a long time, especially those who are homeless suffer from particular bad physical and mental health. UK is multicultural country which hosts hundreds of thousands of migrants from other countries, guest workers, refugees and ethnic minority groups, especially from Asia. These migrants are particularly vulnerable to social segregation or exclusion, especially the children who are likely to be at special risk. Migrants in UK sometimes excluded from citizenship and quite often from education and work opportunities. The hostility, discrimination and racism that they usually face often cause serious harm to their health (Williamson & Robinson, 2006, Pp. 4).

Moreover, communities are likely to reject and marginalize people who are emotionally vulnerable, disabled or will, such as homeless people who are suffering from stress and anxiety which makes them socially unfit for most of the things. Homeless migrants who are facing these social and psychological problems such as social exclusion and anxiety are often bombarded with more problems such as difficulty in earning a living for their children and play their role as father/mother in raising their children in a normal way just like local communities raise theirs.

These social problems also have a trickledown effect on children because children of migrants who are facing economic hardships are seen to be less competitive in their studies because they often brought the problems their family is facing, especially that are arising from economic hardships, in the classroom which results in lower grades and lower IQ etc. on their part. Homeless migrants suffer from combination of social and psychological problems that's why they suffer from the highest ...