Becoming socially included
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https://doi.org/10.1921/swssr20252508Keywords:
social exclusion, social psychiatry, employment, health inequalities, public mental health, mental ill-healthAbstract
Professor Peter Huxley has made a considerable contribution to Social and Community Psychiatry. In this paper, I reflect on some aspects of social psychiatry including its importance, scope and current status, as well as contemporary thinking on the social exclusion and employment of people with mental health conditions. Central to much of the thinking in these areas are health inequalities, the social determinants of ill-health and the bidirectional relationship between social factors and mental ill-health. I leave the final words to Peter Huxley: “Psychiatry and social science both work to understand and address the consequences of social adversity and injustice, even if psychiatry is sometimes reluctant to acknowledge this
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