Health Inequities in Mental Illness & Ethnic Minorities | Prof Leo Cabassa | 49
Physical Health & Mental Health🧠: #mentalhealth #wellness #physicalhealth #mentalhealthawareness

🧠 Addressing these health inequities is crucial to ensuring health care gaps and mortality gaps reduce.

We dive deep into the concerning reality of physical health for those struggling with mental illness. We explore the shocking reality of the mortality gap, where individuals with severe mental illnesses face a life expectancy 10-20 years shorter than the general population.

We shed light on the often-overlooked struggles faced by individuals of racial minority backgrounds in the healthcare system. We also explore the unequal healthcare access experienced by people of ethnic minorities due to stigma, discrimination, and cultural barriers.

✌️ Let's start a conversation, raise awareness, and work towards bridging the gaps!

📹This video is a must-watch for anyone who wants to understand the complex relationship between physical and mental health and the fight for equitable healthcare for all.

Professor Leo Cabassa is a Social Worker & Co-Director of the Centre for Mental Health Services Research at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Leo has conducted research in the community for decades on health inequities in Ps w/SMI and from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds. Check out. Leo's new book "Addressing Health Inequities in People with Serious Mental Illness: A Call to Action" here https://www.amazon.com/Addressing-Hea...

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Chapters
0:00 Show Intro
3:55 The Mortality Gap
9:20 Poor Physical Health in Mental Health
13:50 Poor Quality of Care
25:50 Stigma in Health Care
37:20 Cultural Beliefs in Practitioner-Patient Interactions
50:05 Interventions to address health inequities

Show Notes
-"Addressing Health Inequities in People with Serious Mental Illness:
A Call to Action" by Leo Cabassa
https://www.amazon.com/Addressing-Hea...
https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
-"Understanding excess mortality in persons with mental illness: 17-year follow up of a nationally representative US survey" by Druss et. al., (2011)
"Morbidity and mortality in people with serious mental illness". National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Parks et. al. (2006)
-Keeping Body in Mind Program https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/...
-Multicultural Orientation Framework https://www.multiculturalorientation....
-RACGP Health of the Nation Report 2021
-"Physical health disparities and mental illness: the scandal of premature mortality" by Thornicroft (2011)