Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality
Jonathan M. Metzl,Helena Hansen +1 more
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It is argued that increasing recognition of the ways in which social and economic forces produce symptoms or methylate genes then needs to be better coupled with medical models for structural change.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2014-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1087 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Core competency.read more
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move
Ibrahim Abubakar,Robert W Aldridge,Delan Devakumar,Miriam Orcutt,Rachel Burns,Mauricio Lima Barreto,Poonam Dhavan,Fouad M. Fouad,Nora Groce,Yan Guo,Sally Hargreaves,Sally Hargreaves,Michael Knipper,J. Jaime Miranda,Nyovani Madise,Bernadette N. Kumar,Davide Mosca,Terry McGovern,Leonard S. Rubenstein,Peter Sammonds,Susan M Sawyer,Susan M Sawyer,Kabir Sheikh,Kabir Sheikh,Stephen Tollman,Paul Spiegel,Cathy Zimmerman,J. Jaime Miranda,Mustafa Abbas,Eleanor Acer,Ayesha Ahmad,Seye Abimbola,Karl Blanchet,Philippe Bocquier,Fiona Samuels,Olga Byrne,Sonia Haerizadeh,Rita Issa,Mark A. Collinson,Carren Ginsburg,Ilan Kelman,Alys McAlpine,Nicola S. Pocock,Barbara Olshansky,Dandara de Oliveira Ramos,Michael J. White,Suzanne Zhou +46 more
TL;DR: The most prominent dialogue focuses almost exclusively on migration from LMICs to high-income countries (HICs), where nationalist movements assert so-called cultural sovereignty by delineating an us versus them rhetoric, creating a moral emergency.
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The Stigma Complex.
TL;DR: A stigma complex is proposed, a system of interrelated, heterogeneous parts bringing together insights across disciplines to provide a more realistic and complicated sense of the challenge facing research and change efforts.
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Three Approaches to Understanding and Classifying Mental Disorder: ICD-11, DSM-5, and the National Institute of Mental Health’s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC):
TL;DR: This work identifies four key issues that present challenges to understanding and classifying mental disorder and discusses how the three systems’ approaches to these key issues correspond or diverge as a result of their different histories, purposes, and constituencies.
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Rethinking Historical Trauma
TL;DR: The comparison of the Holocaust and post-colonial Indigenous “survivance” suggests that the persistent suffering of Indigenous peoples in the Americas reflects not so much past trauma as ongoing structural violence.
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