Workplace interventions can reduce stigma

Journal of Public Mental Health

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Knifton, Lee ^a   Walker, Alice ^b   Quinn, Neil ^c  

^a NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Discrimination; Interventions; Stigma; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992969606     PISSN: 17465729     EISSN: 20428731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465729200800028     Document Type: Review

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