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Implications of the Decline in Lgbt Rights for Population Mental Health: Evidence from Polish “Lgbt-Free Zones”

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2024
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    462
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      374
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      88
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      586,438

Article Description

Following decades of reform to legal prohibitions on same-sex marriage and adoption, legislation limiting LGBT rights has increased significantly in recent years. Theories of minority stress suggest anti-LGBT laws can adversely affect the health of LGBT individuals and their families. We investigate how the creation of LGBT-free zones across Poland during 2019 and 2020 affected mental health and mortality. We find that annual suicide attempts increased by 16.5%, or 5 attempts per 100k, and deaths from external causes, including suicide, increased 10.4%, or 5.5 deaths per 100k, in LGBT-free zones. The rise in suicide attempts was concentrated among individuals aged 13-18 and 45-49, and coincided with a reduction in the number of socialization centers for troubled youth. Other than a 9.1% increase in sales of prescription drugs for addictive disorders, there was no change in use of mental health drugs, indicative of limited access to mental health care.

Bibliographic Details

Chad D. Meyerhoefer; Bingjin Xue; Anna Poznańska

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; LGBT; LGBTQ+; mental health; suicide; difference-in-differences; Poland

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