...Mahvia Gull; Zartashia Kynat Javaid; Kamran Khan; Husnain Ali Chaudhry Purpose Stigma is a major impediment to human rights in health care that causes discrimination, isolation and the exclusion of individuals from essential health-care services. It fosters fear, leading to negative stereotyping...

... or AIDS (PLWHA) cope with prejudice and stigma. Design/methodology/approach To guide this research, a constructivist grounded theory approach was adopted as the theoretical and methodological framework. The authors reached the participants through a Toronto-based group that works with PLWHA...

...Annie Isabel Fukushima; Kwynn Gonzalez-Pons; Lindsay Gezinski; Lauren Clark Purpose The purpose of this study is to contribute to the social understanding of stigma as a societal and cultural barrier in the life of a survivor of human trafficking. The findings illustrate several ways where stigma...

...Rita Merhej Purpose Research on mental illness stigma in the Arab world has traditionally focused on socio-cultural barriers that deprive persons with mental illness from their fundamental human right for privacy and informed consent. The purpose of this paper is to address the question whether...

... responses. Informed consent was then obtained from the staff, service users and family members participating in the assessment before interviews were conducted. Egypt CRPD Stigma Mental illness Quality of care Mental health Staff-patient relationship Residential facilities...

... hypothesis could generate both research impetus, as well as implications for clinical practice. Unchaining Prometheus: Does a caste allocation hypothesis begin to explain the pervasive effects of diagnostic labelling and stigma on service users? David Coote Clinical Psychology Trainee, Department of Applied...