People in serious psychological distress are three times more likely to be too poor to afford health care and 10 times more likely to be too poor for medications, research says.
"Serious psychological distress" refers to a mental health problem that is severe enough to require treatment.
People in serious psychological distress are three times more likely to be too poor to afford general health care, and 10 times more likely to be too poor to pay for medications, compared with people who are not mentally ill, according to research published Monday in the journal Psychiatric Services.
