Stigma associated with mental illness in Canada is a national embarrassment
2008; BMJ; Volume: 337; Issue: aug27 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.a1447
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Child and Adolescent Health
ResumoThe stigma attached to mental illness is so pervasive in Canada that it is a national embarrassment, doctors were told at their annual meeting last week. And doctors are part of the problem by refusing to give mental illness the same recognition and responses that are given to other illnesses, delegates at the Canadian Medical Association conference in Montreal heard. The association’s president, Brian Day, said that the results of a new poll, which …
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