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Singh, Swaran P. (2019) How to serve our ethnic minority communities better. Lancet Psychiatry, 6 (4). pp. 275-277. doi:10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30075-6 ISSN 2215-0366.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30075-6
Abstract
On Jan 9, 2017, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, gave a speech about “the burning injustice of mental illness”, mentioning “injustices in the way black people with mental ill health in particular are treated”, and promising that politicians would “take action to put things right.” In response to three decades of UK research on ethnic differences in mental health, such emotionally charged rhetoric has been commonplace, but has rarely produced meaningful change. Mental health care in ethnic minorities is complex, and needs dispassionate and objective scrutiny of evidence and its limitations, with careful disentanglement of the interactions between ethnicity, culture, community histories, legacies of racism, and the labyrinthine service structures that people with mental illness and their families must navigate to get appropriate help. In The Lancet Psychiatry, Phoebe Barnett and colleagues present findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis of ethnicity and legal detention of people with mental illness, an impressive attempt at providing just such scrutiny. Although the findings are not strikingly different from what is known, this comprehensive paper is a timely reminder of how far we are from fully understanding the problem—let alone solving it—and why the stated political intention to put things right might be easy to promise but hard to deliver.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Mental Health and Wellbeing Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Minorities -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Mental health services -- Great Britain, Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Blacks -- Africa -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Asians -- Mental health services -- Great Britain, Immigrants -- Mental health services -- Great Britain | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Lancet Psychiatry | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2215-0366 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 April 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 6 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 275-277 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/S2215-0366(19)30075-6 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Description: | Comment |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 March 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2019 |
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