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Structural Stigma prevents persons living with mental health problems and illnesses and/or lived and living experience of substance use from receiving accessible, person-centred, high-quality health care. Stigma is a key barrier to prevention, treatment, and recovery for people with lived and living experience. STIGMA’S multiple levels STRUCTURAL STIGMA in health care STRUCTURAL STIGMA in health care Structural Stigma refers to the accumulated activities in health-care organizations that deliberately or inadvertently create and maintain social inequities for persons who are living with mental health problems and illnesses and/or lived and living experience of substance use. SOLUTIONS Addressing structural stigma in health-care settings requires a combination of approaches, such as The Mental Health Commission of Canada assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating initiatives to reduce structural stigma within health-care organizations.
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