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Podcast: The Mental Elf
Episode: Louise Howard - Breaking the bias to impact on mental health #IoPPNfestival
Description: Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women’s Mental Health in theDepartment of Health Service & Population Research at King's College London.Differences in the epidemiology of mental disorders in men and women are well-established. Despite this, it could be argued that until recently mental health research largely ignored sex (and gender) differences, risking undermining of scientific validity and efficiency, and potentially contributing to a failure of health providers to deliver gender-sensitive mental health treatments and services, to the detriment of both men and women. The IoPPN research group Section of Women’s Mental Health have therefore focused on gendered determinants of ment...