Familiarity with mental illness and approval of structural discrimination against psychiatric patients in Germany

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-92

  Schomerus, Georg ^a   Matschinger, Herbert ^a   Angermeyer, Matthias C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Familiarity with mental illness; Public attitudes; Schizophrenia; Structural discrimination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNDING; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33846220275     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000252314.45371.92     Document Type: Article

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