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Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis
Australians with severe mental illness experience inequitably high rates of physical illness and shortened life expectancy compared to the general population. A social analysis of this phenomenon incorporating a precis of historical and contemporary public health approaches reveals persistent discri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039742/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30008569 |
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description | Australians with severe mental illness experience inequitably high rates of physical illness and shortened life expectancy compared to the general population. A social analysis of this phenomenon incorporating a precis of historical and contemporary public health approaches reveals persistent discrimination and entrenched social disadvantage influencing access to appropriate physical health care. People with severe mental illness in Australia are among the most vulnerable and marginalized populations in society, with fragmented and inadequate health and social services materially influencing their physical health status and longevity. Enhanced multi-sectoral collaboration, integrated physical and mental health care models, empowerment strategies, and privileging of a lay perspective within program design are critical to challenging this enduring infringement on the human right to health. |
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spelling | pubmed-60397422018-07-13 Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis Edmunds, Melanie Health Hum Rights Research-Article Australians with severe mental illness experience inequitably high rates of physical illness and shortened life expectancy compared to the general population. A social analysis of this phenomenon incorporating a precis of historical and contemporary public health approaches reveals persistent discrimination and entrenched social disadvantage influencing access to appropriate physical health care. People with severe mental illness in Australia are among the most vulnerable and marginalized populations in society, with fragmented and inadequate health and social services materially influencing their physical health status and longevity. Enhanced multi-sectoral collaboration, integrated physical and mental health care models, empowerment strategies, and privileging of a lay perspective within program design are critical to challenging this enduring infringement on the human right to health. Harvard University Press 2018-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6039742/ /pubmed/30008569 Text en Copyright © 2018 Edmunds. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research-Article Edmunds, Melanie Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title | Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title_full | Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title_fullStr | Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title_short | Inequitable Physical Illness and Premature Mortality for People with Severe Mental Illness in Australia: A Social Analysis |
title_sort | inequitable physical illness and premature mortality for people with severe mental illness in australia: a social analysis |
topic | Research-Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039742/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30008569 |
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