The "backbone" of stigma: Identifying the Global core of public prejudice associated with mental illness

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 853-860

  Pescosolido, Bernice A ^a   Medina, Tait R ^a   Martin, Jack K ^a   Long, J Scott ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC OPINION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STIGMA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876854612     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301147     Document Type: Article

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