Realizing Human Rights and Equity in Mental Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 3242
Special Issue Editors
Interests: critical health policy; mental health reform; service provision; intersectional approaches in mental health; health and social and structural inequities
MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: social and health inequities; racism and mental health; migration and mental health; work and mental health; community-based research; health system transformation; global health; implementation science
Interests: mental health and disability policy and practice; social innovations informed by intersectionality, human rights, and reflexivity; trauma and social determinants of health; leadership in transformative system change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Evidence abounds of the stigma, discrimination, and human rights violations that people who need and/or access mental health care experience, and yet the system response to this evidence has been poorly supported and conceived. Rights violations and coercive practices in mental health are mediated through day-to-day stigmatizing attitudes and discriminatory behaviours and through the use of domestic mental health laws. Indeed, many countries’ mental health laws have been found to be in direct contravention of international human rights covenants. These practices exist despite the move towards recovery and human rights-oriented paradigms in mental health that are pushing for system change. Internationally, non-governmental and disability person’s organizations (DPOs) that are user–survivor led play a key advocacy role in mental health and some excellent models for recovery-oriented, non-coercive, community-based mental health care exist. The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase research, activism, policy, and practice that gives primacy to people’s lived experiences of coercion and the ways that these experiences are shaped by social and structural factors such as sexism, colonialism, racism, sanism, and poverty. Research and practice that employs intersectional approaches within the mental health sector and demonstrates the transformative power of coalition building across sectors to enhance critical mass to resist coercive practices and foster innovation in mental health and well-being will be highlighted. Papers that align with the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)’s human rights framework and the WHO’s mental health Quality Rights Initiative and that respect the dignity of people experiencing emotional distress will be featured.
Dr. Marina Morrow
Dr. Susan L. Hardie
Dr. Farah Mawani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mental health
- human rights
- equity
- colonialism
- psychiatry
- discrimination
- coercive practices
- racism
- sexism
- poverty
- citizenship
- intersectionality.
