Stigma, prejudice and discrimination in global public health

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Richard Parker¹ 

[1] ,Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York,USA

关键词: Social Stigma;    Prejudice;    Social Inequality;    Estigma Social;    Preconceito;    Iniquidade Social;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0102-311X2012000100017

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This article reviews the development of international research on the relationship between discrimination and health. It provides an overview of theoretical and empirical work on stigma and prejudice and their impact on discrimination and health. It argues that the literature on these issues has drawn primarily from social psychology and has focused on the impact of attitudes associated with stigma and prejudice on discriminatory practices and consequently health outcomes. It also identifies a growing trend in recent research towards a reconceptualization of stigma, prejudice and discrimination from the perspective of social inequality and structural violence, highlighting relations of power and exclusion that reinforce vulnerability within a complex social and political process. It concludes by briefly examining the ways in which this reconceptualization of discriminatory practices has generated a growing interest in the linkages between health and human rights and renewed interest in health and social justice; two major trends in the field of global public health.

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