Realizing Human Rights and Equity in Mental Health

We gather information about the lived experiences of coercion and discrimination in mental health care and highlight services and practices that are more ...

Services 4 — Realizing Human Rights and Equity in Mental Health

Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health documents human rights violations in mental health and highlights services and practices that are ...

About 1 — Realizing Human Rights and Equity in Mental Health

Vrinda Edan is an experienced consumer leader with 20 years work in the consumer field and is currently a Senior Consumer Academic at the Centre for Mental ...

Special Issue : Realizing Human Rights and Equity in Mental Health

Special Issue Information. Dear Colleagues. Evidence abounds of the stigma, discrimination, and human rights violations that people who need and/or access ...

Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health (English)

Webinar 2: Disrupting Colonialism & Biomedical Reductionism in Mental Health: Enhancing Equity & Protecting Human Rights This webinar brings ...

Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health

Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health ; On Policing Pandemics: Resistance to Medico-Legal Surveillance & Enforcement.

Centering mental health in society: A human rights approach to well ...

Applying a human rights lens to mental health and well-being will improve the systems that govern and operate U.S. society. Achieving this ...

Social Justice and Mental Health: Linking Societal and Relational ...

Racial, cultural, and gender norms impact our societal expectations and perceptions of how we should think and act as human beings. There is the unjust ...

Mental Health as a Basic Human Right and the Interference of ...

Although there is consensus that a rights-based approach to mental health is needed, there is disagreement about how best to conceptualize and execute it.

Realizing the Right to Health: A Long and Winding Road

My next stop was at Human Rights Watch (HRW). I stayed for a decade, working on health and human rights and starting new programs on the ...

Full article: Human rights and the social determinants of mental health

This paper explores the potential for incorporating elements of both social determinants and human rights approaches to provide a new framework for mental ...

Mental health — a foundational and universal human right - Nature

Indeed, if we consider the principles of equality, non-discrimination and dignity as core values that constitute human rights, it is clear that ...

Behavioral Health and Equity | NCSC

Behavioral health equity is the right to access high-quality and affordable health care ... civil rights movement. The assumption is the more knowledge we have ...

Recognizing Mental Health As A Right, Not A Luxury - CRN

If I can be so bold, I suggest a reframe of mental health from a luxury to a fundamental human right. Too often, mental health support is ...

Conceptualizing the Social Determinants of Mental Health Within an ...

I argue that the social determinants of mental health and international human rights law are mutually reinforcing. Both are necessary to realize ...

Mental Health Crisis Support Rooted in Community and Human Rights

Human Rights Watch and Gerstein Crisis Centre hope this document inspires action among and across mental health service providers, service users ...

How right is right-based mental health law?

The primary purpose of human rights is to protect individual dignity. Dignity may be undermined by mental illness itself or its treatment (e.g., involuntary ...

Behavioral Health Equity - SAMHSA

Advancing behavioral health equity means working to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to be as healthy as possible. In conjunction with access to ...

Human Rights and Social Justice

It is particularly important for people with mental health problems to enjoy the same rights and social justice as all citizens and to be protected from laws.

World Mental Health Day: Mental Health is a Universal Human Right

Recognizing that mental health is a universal human right is acknowledging the relationship between mental health and the overall quality of life.