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Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.

The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.

Classified as: Research News, cécile rousseau, Department of Psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, COVIVRE, mental health
Published on: 12 May 2021

This week, we would like to spotlight Dr. Laurence J Kirmayer, a James McGill Professor and the Director of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. He is also editor-in-chief of Transcultural Psychiatry (the official journal of the Section on Transcultural Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association), which was founded at McGill and celebrated its 50th volume on October 25, 2013.

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Classified as: Transcultural Psychiatry, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Dr. Lawrence Kirmayer
Published on: 11 Feb 2014
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