Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress and Illness and Case - Kam Bhui

Over six decades of research confirm there are ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness. Notably, black and minority ethnic communities experiences a higher incidence of psychoses, as do migrants more generally. They experience more coercive care pathways, namely more crisis and emergency care, police contact, criminal justice system contact, and compulsory care under the powers of the Mental Health Act. These findings are replicated in Europe and North America. The reasons for these differences have been debated, some arguing they meet treatment needs, and others arguing that they are manifestations of structural racism. Efforts to tackle inequalities face challenges due to conflict, resistance and direct opposition. In today’s lecture, Kam Bhui will share his views on conceptual confusions, causes, and remedies by drawing on recent Lived Experience Data on compulsory treatment, other research and campaigns over three decades.
This is the eleventh lecture in the London Lecture Series 2023/24, which this year is on the subject of Madness and Mental Health. Watch the whole series here: • Madness and Mental Hea...
About the speaker
Kam Bhui is a professor of psychiatry and Hon. consultant psychiatrist, undertaking eco-social, syndemic, and health and social systems research. Through his research, Kam seeks to improve policy and practice, reduce health inequalities and adverse health outcomes, such as persistent mental illness, suicide, and premature mortality due to chronic long-term conditions, and advance research methods and interdisciplinary dialogue.
Kam has established an international Centre of Excellence on cultural psychiatry practice, research and teaching (psyarxiv.com/2kqbp/) and led the Synergi Collaborative Centre (synergicollaborativecentre.co...) a national partnership to understand and tackle ethnic inequalities in severe mental illness.
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Lecture - 01:27
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FIRST! 🎉 Equality is non-existent in this phenomenal sphere. Equality exists in abstract ideas such as mathematics and arguably on the sub-atomic level ALONE.🤓 UNFORTUNATELY, it requires an intelligence quotient above double-digits in order to be able to comprehend such truthful concepts. 😛