Lancet Commission 2022: Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health
2022
This Lancet Commission report summarizes lived experiences of stigma and discrimination related to mental health conditions, related impacts on engagement with community, barriers to help-seeking, forms of social inclusion, and care provision. The report highlights that interventions focused on in-person, virtual, or indirect social contact have been most effective in reducing stigmatization worldwide, especially when appropriately adapted to specific cultures and contexts. Such interventions are even more effective when developed with people with lived experience of mental health conditions.
The report was co-created with individuals with lived experience of mental health conditions and offers material to amplify the voices of people with lived experience. In addition to providing targets and indicators for tracking progress to ending mental health-related stigma, the commission is accompanied by a summary infographic and a video by poets sharing aloud their experiences with mental health-related discrimination.
Lancet Commission 2022: Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health
Source:
Thornicraft G et al. Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health. The Lancet 2022; 400(10361): 1438-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01470-2.