Black mental health matters: Time to eradicate long-standing ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare

Division of Psychology & Mental Health (L5)

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In 2018, ethnic inequalities in mental health treatment led the Royal College of Psychiatrists to endorse the position that mental healthcare in the UK is institutionally racist. In this blog, Jamal Alston, Dr Henna Lemetyinen, and Professor Dawn Edge explain how these inequalities present themselves, and use their research to outline new policies for mental healthcare.

Period	15 Jul 2020

Media contributions

Title	Black mental health matters: Time to eradicate long-standing ethnic inequalities in mental healthcare
Degree of recognition	National
Media name/outlet	Policy@Manchester Blog
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	15/07/20
Description	In 2018, ethnic inequalities in mental health treatment led the Royal College of Psychiatrists to endorse the position that mental healthcare in the UK is institutionally racist. In this blog, Jamal Alston, Dr Henna Lemetyinen, and Professor Dawn Edge explain how these inequalities present themselves, and use their research to outline new policies for mental healthcare.
URL	blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2020/07/black-mental-health-matters-time-to-eradicate-long-standing-ethnic-inequalities-in-mental-healthcare/
Persons	Jamal Alston, Henna Lemetyinen, Dawn Edge

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