Stigmatization and Access to Health Care in Latin America: Challenges and Perspectives (original) (raw)
Stigma associated with mental illness produces a series of adverse conditions that can result in exclusion in health. From the perspective of health systems, however, this phenomenon has not been widely studied. Hence the purpose of this study is to establish the importance of stigma as a barrier to access to the health services, and to identify ways to reduce exclusion in health due to stigma that go beyond the protection of the rights of the individual and place it within the framework of the extension of social protection in health. To this end, the study attempts to analyze the subject on the basis of what is happening today in the countries of Latin America in relation to:
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