ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 11

Mental derailment among tribal women in Kerala

  • Author:
  • M Meera Bai
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 158 to 165

Professor, Department of Applied Economics Director, Women's Studies Centre, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, Kerala, India

Online published on 30 March, 2016.

Abstract

Poverty, gender discrimination, use of alcohol, stress of modern life, conflicts and natural disasters are the major risk factors identified for mental illness nation-wide. But in the absence of an official mental health survey, there is little data on the number of people who suffer from this illness.