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Local June 21, 2014 | 10:15 am

Poverty increases mental problems, experts point out

Santo Domingo.– Economic deprivation is the main factor of mental diseases in Latin America, especially in very poor countries such as the Dominican Republic, and the situation is aggravated by labor exploitation and exclusion.

To that conclusion arrived yesterday the members of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and the Latin American Psychiatric Association (Apal), who warned abo... Read more

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