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California's Historic Effort to Reduce the Stigma of Mental Illness: The Mental Health Services Act.
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American Journal of Public Health . May2013, Vol. 103 Issue 5, p786-794. 9p. 2 Diagrams, 3 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- In a historic effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, California voters approved the Mental Health Services Act in 2004. The law funds a comprehensive statewide prevention initiative that places stigma and discrimination reduction at its center, with 25 projects providing interventions at the institutional, societal, and individual levels. Stakeholders selected specific strategies from the research-based California Strategic Plan on Reducing Stigma and Discrimination. Strategies range from social marketing to increase public knowledge to capacity building at the local level, including training that emphasizes participation by consumers of mental health services and cultural competence. Collectively, these strategies aim to foster permanent change in the public perception of mental illness and in the individual experience of stigma. We examined the context, planning,programming,and evaluation of this effort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DISCRIMINATION prevention
*MENTAL health service laws
*SOCIAL stigma
*HEALTH education
*EVALUATION of medical care
*HEALTH policy
*MENTAL illness
*PREVENTIVE health services
*SOCIAL change
*STRATEGIC planning
*PATIENT participation
*PATIENTS' rights
*GOVERNMENT aid
*HUMAN services programs
*EARLY medical intervention
*EVALUATION of human services programs
*PREVENTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00900036
- Volume :
- 103
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 86141419
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301225