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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. 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. 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.
STIGMA’S multiple levels
STRUCTURAL STIGMA in health care
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