International Epilepsy Day marked on 11 February aims to create greater awareness around epilepsy and helping end the stigma and discrimination that sufferers often experience. Novartis South Africa ...

Stigma can be defined, studied, and measured. When stigma is promoted through the organizations and systems that govern daily life, it is called structural stigma. Stigma itself is a powerful social ...

An Air Force deputy wing chaplain holds a tea-light candle Sept. 30, 2020, at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, during an End the Stigma event. (Airman 1st Class Natalie Rubenak/Air Force) On Oct.

Ashwin Dhanda receives funding from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research for a study investigating methods to tackle stigma in alcohol-related liver disease. One of my patients, ...

Ramya Ramadurai, a Ph.D. graduate student in clinical psychology at American University, contributed to this post. Stigma is defined as a mark of shame or discredit. Through sociological labelling ...

Over the past few decades, we’ve come a long way in how we view and talk about mental health. And that should come as no surprise, because 1 in 5 adults in the United States lives with a mental health ...

Mental health stigma refers to societal disapproval or when society places shame on people who live with a mental illness or seek help for emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar ...