TY - JOUR
KW - Stigma (health related)
KW - Public  health
KW - Intervention
AU - Cook J
AU - Purdie-Vaughns V
AU - Meyer I
AU - Busch J
AB - This article uses a multilevel approach to review the literature on interventions with promise to reduce social stigma and its consequences for population health. Three levels of an ecological system are discussed. The intrapersonal level describes interventions directed at individuals, to either enhance coping strategies of people who belong to stigmatized groups or change attitudes and behaviors of the non-stigmatized. The interpersonal level describes interventions that target dyadic or small group interactions. The structural level describes interventions directed at the social-political environment, such as laws and policies. These intervention levels are related and they reciprocally affect one another. In this article we review the literature within each level. We suggest that interventions at any level have the potential to affect other levels of an ecological system through a process of mutually reinforcing reciprocal processes. We discuss research priorities, in particular longitudinal research that incorporates multiple outcomes across a system.
BT - Social science & medicine
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24513229?dopt=Abstract
CN - COOK 2014
DA - 2014 Feb
DO - 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.023
J2 - Soc Sci Med
LA - eng
N2 - This article uses a multilevel approach to review the literature on interventions with promise to reduce social stigma and its consequences for population health. Three levels of an ecological system are discussed. The intrapersonal level describes interventions directed at individuals, to either enhance coping strategies of people who belong to stigmatized groups or change attitudes and behaviors of the non-stigmatized. The interpersonal level describes interventions that target dyadic or small group interactions. The structural level describes interventions directed at the social-political environment, such as laws and policies. These intervention levels are related and they reciprocally affect one another. In this article we review the literature within each level. We suggest that interventions at any level have the potential to affect other levels of an ecological system through a process of mutually reinforcing reciprocal processes. We discuss research priorities, in particular longitudinal research that incorporates multiple outcomes across a system.
PY - 2014
SP - 101
EP - 9
T2 - Social science & medicine
TI - Intervening within and across levels: A multilevel approach to stigma and public health.
VL - 103
SN - 1873-5347
ER -