ArticleSociology of health & illness2020
Where next for understanding race/ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness? Structural, interpersonal and institutional racism.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 234 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Racism and psychosis: an umbrella review and qualitative analysis of the mental health consequences of racism.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Ethnic inequalities in multiple long-term health conditions in the United Kingdom: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Clinical and social factors associated with involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in children and adolescents: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2021Pooled it
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- Race, restriction, risk and reconviction: findings from an England and Wales medium secure cohort.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2026Article
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Abstract
In this article we use the example of race/ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness to demonstrate the utility of a novel integrative approach to theorising the role of racism in generating inequality. Ethnic minority people in the UK are at much greater risk than White British people of being diagnosed with a severe - psychosis related - mental illness, and this is particularly the case for those with Black Caribbean or Black African origins. There is entrenched dispute about how we might understand the drivers of this inequality. To address this dispute we build on, and to a certain extent refine, established approaches to theorising structural and institutional racism, and integrate this within a theoretical framework that also incorporates racist/discriminatory interactions (interpersonal racism). We argue that this provides a conceptually robust and thorough analysis of the role of inter-related dimensions of racism in shaping risks of severe mental illness, access to care, and policy and practice responses. This analysis carries implications for a broader, but integrated, understanding of the fundamental drives of race/ethnic inequalities in health and for an anti-racism public health agenda.
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