The Mental Health of Refugees during a Pandemic: Striving toward Social Justice through Social Determinants of Health and Human Rights
This paper is the second of two in a series. In our first paper, we presented a social justice framework emerging from an extensive literature review and incorporating core social determinants specific to mental health in the age of COVID-19 and illustrated specific social determinants impacting mental health (SDIMH) of our resettled Bhutanese refugee population during the pandemic. This second paper details specific barriers to the SDIMH detrimental to the basic human rights and social justice of this population during this pandemic. The SDIMH, as described, further informs the need for social justice measures and cultural humility in mental healthcare, public health, law, and community engagement. This work concludes with a proposed call to action toward mental health improvement and fair treatment for refugee populations in three core areas: communication and education, social stigma and discrimination, and accessibility and availability of resources.
Daniel Yozwiak
Tanner McGuire
Julie M Aultman
Asian Bioeth Rev
. 2021 Sep 13;14(1):9-23. doi: 10.1007/s41649-021-00184-0. eCollection 2022 Jan.
2022
English
Health Equity, Cuban Style.
The United States has not yet decided to ensure that every citizen has access to health care services at reasonable cost. The United States spends more on health care than any other country by far. Yet the health status of the US population, when compared with that of like nations, remains poor. The US system does not operate efficiently, fares poorly in terms of health equity, and has an illness and injury care industry with many uncoordinated “systems” focused on treating individuals rather than on improving health status. There are lessons for us in Cuba’s health system.
Keck CW
Ama Journal Of Ethics
2021
Journal Article
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Principles of research ethics: A research primer for low- and middle-income countries.
justice; autonomy; beneficence; consent; Ethics committees
Ethical oversight in the form of review boards and research ethics committees provide protection for research subjects as well as guidance for safe conduct of studies. As the number of collaborative emergency care research studies carried out in low- and middle-income countries increases, it is crucial to have a shared understanding of how ethics should inform choice of study topic, study design, methods of obtaining consent, data management, and access to treatment after closure of the study. This paper describes the basic principles of Western research ethics - respect for persons, beneficence, and justice - and how the principles may be contextualized in different settings, by researchers of various backgrounds with different funding streams. Examples of lapses in ethical practice of research are used to highlight best practices.
Bitter Cindy C; Ngabirano AA; Simon E; Taylor D
African Journal of Emergency Medicine : Revue Africaine de la Medecine d'urgence
2020
2020-08-13
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journalArticle
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2020.07.006" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.afjem.2020.07.006</a>
Recognition And Understanding Of Goals And Roles: The Key Internal Features Of Mental Health Court Teams
boundaries; community treatment; conflict; Government & Law; ill offenders; Interdisciplinary team; justice; law-enforcement; Mental health court; Mental illness; Professional roles; Psychiatry; systems; working
Gallagher M; Skubby D; Bonfine N; Munetz M R; Teller J L S
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
2011
2011-11
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.10.005" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.ijlp.2011.10.005</a>
The professionalism movement: Can we pause?
ACGME outcomes; Biomedical Social Sciences; education; justice; medical; Medical Ethics; Medical Ethics; medical humanities; medical-student abuse; mistreatment; perceptions; professionalism; professionalism professional development; school; social; Social Issues; Social Sciences - Other Topics; virtue
The topic of developing professionalism dominated the content of many academic medicine publications and conference agendas during the past decade. Calls to address the development of professionalism among medical students and residents have come from professional societies, accrediting agencies, and a host of educators in the biomedical sciences. The language of the professionalism movement is now a given among those in academic medicine. We raise serious concerns about the professionalism discourse and how the specialized language of academic medicine disciplines has defined, organized, contained, and made seemingly immutable a group of attitudes, values, and behaviors subsumed under the label of "professionalism." In particular, we argue that the professionalism discourse needs to pay more attention to the academic environment in which students are educated, that it should articulate specific positive behaviors, that the theory of professionalism must be constructed from a dialogue with those we are educating, and that this theoretical and practical discourse must aim at a deeper understanding of social justice and the role of medicine within a just society.
Wear D; Kuczewski M G
American Journal of Bioethics
2004
2004
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1162/152651604323097600" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1162/152651604323097600</a>