The gendered experience of stigmatization in severe and persistent mental illness in Lima, Peru

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2178-2186

  Robillard, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Gender; Illness narrative; Latin America; Mental illness; Peru; Stigmatization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DISABILITY; GENDER ROLE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSISTENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERU; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STIGMA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING;

LATIN AMERICA; LIMA [PERU]; PERU;

EID: 78649448203     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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