"What matters most:" A cultural mechanism moderating structural vulnerability and moral experience of mental illness stigma

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 103, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-93

  Yang, Lawrence H ^a   Chen, Fang pei ^a   Sia, Kathleen Janel ^a   Lam, Jonathan ^b   Lam, Katherine ^a   Ngo, Hong ^b   Lee, Sing ^c   Kleinman, Arthur ^d   Good, Byron ^d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese; Culture; Health disparities; Immigrants; Psychosis; Stigma; Structural; United States

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CULTURE; HEALTH DISPARITIES; IMMIGRANTS; PSYCHOSIS; STIGMA; STRUCTURAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893462251     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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