HLTC02H3 Lecture Notes - Rape Crisis Center, Acculturation, Canadian Mental Health Association
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Hltc02 chapter 13: women"s voices matter: creating women-centered mental health policy by. Health care policy decision making in canada varies from province to province and region to region. The discrimination and stigma associated with mental illness and the belief that people with mental illnesses cannot make competent decisions means that the engagement of mental health care recipients has lagged comparison with other populations. Three year comparative study explored from 2000 to 2003 of mental health reforms in the provinces of british columbia , ontario and quebec, chosen for their unique mental health policies. Has to understand mental health as a gendered concept. Women have been positioned more vulnerable to mental instability. Women have historically been put in the irrational and nature side of the nature/culture binary therefore even in western thinking, women more than men have come to known as mentally unstable.
