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See all the wonderful things Avril Hendry has made

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See all the wonderful things Avril Hendry has made

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Single mothers often face stigma and therefore are vulnerable to health inequalities. Coupled with poor benefits system, childcare costs and poor housing, the risks of developing mental health issues increases. Some individuals have great support networks around them but others do not. It is important to address some of these issues when moving forward with improvements for health inequalities.

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Those who inject drugs face stigma not only from the general public but have faced stigma from health practitioners and 3rd sector services (Muncan, Walters, Ezell & Ompad, 2020). This in itself can  lead to further disengagement from services where persons can present years later with often complex mental and physical needs.

Muncan, B., Walters, S., Ezell, J., & Ompad, D. (2020). “They look at us like junkies”: influences of drug use stigma on the healthcare engagement of people who inject drugs in New York City. Harm Reduction Journal, 17(1). doi: 10.1186/s12954-020-00399-8

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People who have no or very little support networks are vulnerable to all kinds of difficulties and inequalities. Including loneliness, which can lead to other mental health issues such as anxiety and depression. This also means that they are more likely to struggle to seek/access help.

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Homelessness, drug addiction, and the poor are other groups in society who are more vulnerable to experience mental health inequalities. Like the other groups listed here, I think these inequalities persist due to societal issues, like power imbalances, lack of equality in sharing of resources across society, and the biggest for me, the lack of interest, compassion, commitment and desire of societies as a whole, to demand such equality for all. Within this lack of care, all other factors like, ignorance, discrimination, prejudice, etc., that create and perpetuate vulnerabilities exist and persist.

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I agree with the statements. Each and every group have inequality challenges. It is sad that we don't have effective and meaningful ways to tackle. 

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I agree with the statements. Each and every group have inequality challenges. It is sad that we don't have effective and meaningful ways to tackle. 

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The British Equality Act 2010 supports Anti-discrimination on the grounds of race amongst other factors to be taken in to consideration. However according to a study by Cooper et al, 2011 there are many perspectives and perceptions from the person receiving care or not who feels they are being discriminated against by their race, excluded from services, experiencing stigma, that the responsibility of care should be from family, language barriers and confidentiality fears, also having doubts about services lack cultural competence.

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Older people are vulnerable to becoming socially isolated due to loss of role (family, occupation) and issues of mobility, disability or illness. Loneliness and negative impacts on peoples' mental health can result from this isolation.
According to AGE UK over 2 million people over the age of 75 live alone and of those at least 1 million state that they might go a month without speaking to anyone. This significantly contrasts with the lives we typically lead in contemporary UK society. It raises questions about how we value older people and their contribution and whether this is different to other societies around the world.
NHS Choices, Loneliness in Older People

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Individuals in the judicial system who have mental ill health. 

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Individuals in the judicial system who have mental ill health. 

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Individuals who are or have been in the judicial system face stigma and inequalities from general public. They are stigmatised by society. People who have been or still in prisons are seen as deviants within society. People that have been in prison or still in prison will experience depression, anxiety and loneliness. However society will see this as self inflicted based upon there actions took them down this path of prison life. These people are seen as deviants as they don't fit within consensus of society and are going against what is expected of them. ( Society stigma). As these people don't have a role within society and are going against the '' norms'' of what the society expects of them.

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Fifty percent of people with a learning disability with referral to community LD teams have mental health needs in the same categories as people in the general population. It is suggested that there are five determinants of health inequalities experienced by people with LDs these are as follows; communication difficulties, personal health behaviour and lifestyle risk, lack of access, social determinants and physical and metal health problems associated with their LDs. - Joint Commissioning Panel

for Mental Health

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Barriers to accessing services and a lack of societal education have put LGBT+ in an 'at risk' for inequality category for all aspects of life but scholarship over the last 30 years has resulted in the emergence of a ‘suicide

consensus’ that LGBT individuals are at elevated risk of mental health difficulties

and suicidality, compared with their heterosexual or cisgender (gender conforming) peers.
Eliason, M (2010) Introduction to special issue on suicide, mental health, and youth development. Journal of Homosexuality. 58(1): 4–9.