Stigma and Discrimination

Thornicroft, Graham; Mehta, Nisha; Brohan, Elaine; Kassam, Aliya

doi:10.1002/9780470684214.ch26

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“…To avoid this in Uzbekistan, the overriding institutional culture should be challenged by national anti-stigma campaigns along with or prior to shifting care to community. Such campaigns based on local educational initiatives aiming at replacing myths and stereotypes together with mass-media advertising have reported positive outcomes both in increasing public knowledge on mental illness and in diminishing experienced discrimination reported by people with mental disorders in England, Japan, New Zealand, Egypt and Brazil 41 .…”

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Recommendations for Mental Health Reforms in Uzbekistan: A Policy Report

Aliev¹,

Salisbury²

2020

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Introduction: There are large differences in the development of mental health systems of the West and the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. The latter is characterized by a more biological approach to mental health and reliance on psychiatric hospitals. In 2018, Uzbekistan authorities showed interest in reforming mental health care of the country. The policy report provides an overview of progress towards the provision of community mental health (CMH) care across Eastern Europe and recommendations for this transition within Uzbekistan.Methods: A literature search on mental health care in Uzbekistan was conducted to understand its strengths and weaknesses. Progress towards the provision of CMH care across Eastern Europe was assessed using data on the number of psychiatric beds and availability of mental health services in community settings reported within the published literature. Countries identified as making the greatest progress towards CMH care were reviewed in detail to better understand the process of reform assets and barriers.Results: Mental health care in Uzbekistan is highly institutionalized, underfunded and understaffed. Social care services are poorly developed. However, current leadership has kindled the promise of mental health reform. Georgia, Lithuania and Poland have made the most progress in terms of CMH care availability. However, due to various obstacles such as dual financial burden, high stigma and lack of political will, their programs lack social integration and/or uniform availability and underfunding along with scarcity of mental health specialists are common. On the other hand, research and evaluation, involvement of service users into service planning and cooperation with donors facilitated reform implementation.Conclusion: Uzbekistan may develop into a modern mental health system and avoid the setbacks encountered by other countries in the region, through careful financial planning, stigma reduction, improving mental health literacy, human resources strategic development and civil society engagement.

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Recommendations for Mental Health Reforms in Uzbekistan: A Policy Report

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Salisbury²

2020

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“…Discrimination results, in part, from lack of knowledge about a social group and prejudice about its faith, tenets, and values (Thornicroft, Mehta, Brohan, & Kassam, 2010). A lack of knowledge about Islam persists in the United States; a national study has revealed that over half of Americans say they know little or nothing about Islam (Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life, 2010).…”

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Perceived Discrimination of Muslims in Health Care

Martin¹

2015

Journal of Muslim Mental Health

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Discrimination is not only a human and civil rights offense, but also a detrimental influence on the health outcomes of affected populations. The Muslim population in the United States is a growing religious minority increasingly encountered by health care professionals in the clinical setting. This group has been subject to heightened discrimination since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and often is misunderstood within the context of American society today. While research has been conducted on discrimination against Muslims in the employment and educational segments of society, more studies are needed which quantify the extent and type of discrimination faced by this group in the health care setting. This inquiry focused on the crossover of anti-Muslim discrimination from society to the health care setting. A newly developed tool to measure anti-Muslim discrimination in health care and an established perceived discrimination scale were used to create the questionnaire employed in this investigation. The items of this newly created tool addressed culturally congruent care practices based on principles of cultural safety within the nurse-patient relationship and the cultural care beliefs of the Muslim patient/family to ascertain discriminatory occurrences in the health care setting. Ray's (2010)

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