ReviewSociology of health & illness2023
Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma.
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- Navigating Pandemic Hardships: Experiences of Food Insecurity in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adults in Canada.Sociology of health & illness · 2026Article
- Exploring African Community Attitudes Towards Mental Illness in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Stigma, Silence and Strength: A Co-produced Inquiry into Mental Health Conversations in Black African Communities in the UK.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Post Covid-19 Condition as a Diagnosis: A Qualitative Study on Epistemological Tensions Among Experts in Sweden.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025Article
- Inequality, Trust and Fear: Migrant Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
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- The experiences of mental healthcare users regarding the quality of their major depressive disorder treatment.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2025Article
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- The use and operationalization of "structural stigma" in health-related research: A scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance, system justification, and conservative political ideology as predictors of mental health stigma: The Hungarian case.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mental health among people with a migration background in Belgium over the past 20 years: how has the situation evolved?Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2023Article
- Stigma, mental illness & ethnicity: Time to centre racism and structural stigma.Sociology of health & illness · 2023Review
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Abstract
This article critically reviews previous research in the field of stigma, mental illness and 'race' and ethnicity, and argues for a shift of focus from individual and community blame, as inferred by mental illness stigma, to a more comprehensive view of how stigma operates against a backdrop of structural and institutional racism. Ethnic minority people have poorer mental health outcomes compared with White majority populations. Dominant narratives of greater mental illness stigma in ethnic minority populations, due to religious, spiritual or traditional beliefs and leading to a lower use of services, have taken centre stage in the explanations for these consequent poorer outcomes. This article argues that this 'fact' has become taken for granted as knowledge without corresponding comparative research evidence. Research in the field has also failed to robustly consider how racism might operate in conjunction with different forms of mental illness stigma (particularly structural stigma) to exacerbate mental illness and influence pathways to mental health treatment. Future research should centre the role of racism and structural stigma in explaining the poorer mental health outcomes for ethnic minority people.
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