Political Economy and Mental Health: A Reconsideration in Modern Era

Abstract

Political economy can be considered as the shared field between economics, politics and sociology, and the mandatory mindset of politicians. Alternatively, everybody’s livelihood and socioeconomic status is in mutual relationship with governing policies. In line with the existing data, there is a clear relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health. So, it is one of the main tasks of every regime to handle the main fiscal challenges of its people with proper plans, and disregard its scheme or points. But unfortunately, and along with the available facts, a remarkable number of administrators around the world, whether in industrialized or unindustrialized countries, are oblivious with respect to main impressions or intentions of public livelihood, due to lack of confusion in their national political economy or sociopolitical intentions, and so they are part of the problem because they do not know, basically, that what they are working for and why they are among the officials. In the present article, the pragmatic concept and importance of political economy and its relationship with community mental health has been reviewed briefly.