Stigma and discrimination against people with schizophrenia related to medical services.
CONCLUSIONS: Mental health service providers have a key role in decreasing stigma in their provision of health care, and by doing more against stigmatizing and discriminating practices on the therapeutic and organizational level. This will require a change of attitudes and practices among mental and physical health care staff.
PMID: 23788438 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Harangozo J, Reneses B, Brohan E, Sebes J, Csukly G, López-Ibor J, Sartorius N, Rose D, Thornicroft G Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research