Black Mental Health Manifesto

"Concrete action is needed to improve mental healthcare for black communities otherwise generations will keep being “held back from achieving their full potential”, a new coalition has warned.

The group said it is calling for “positive change” to alter a system within which it said black people are being failed when they at their most vulnerable.

The coalition – which includes the Black Minds Matter charity, the Centre for Mental Health and Mind as well as smaller grass-roots organisations – has launched what it called the Black Mental Health Manifesto."

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Mental Health / Illness - Parity of Esteem Holistic: Assessment, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation - Competency? Diagnosis of Psychoses	Physical health change/revision - WHEN? Objectivity of assessment / Cultural literacy
Black communities and Families Culture, History Radical future? Stigma, Stereotype Social determinants	Racism. Economic, Political determinants Poverty, Housing insecurity Statistics - Admissions / Recourse to MHA Incarceration, Injustice Mental Health Law - Mental Health Act CHANGE/REVISION - when? Coalition

DATA POWER 2024

"Exciting news: 

The fifth #DataPower Conference will take place from 4th to 6th September '24 - in Bangalore (India), Graz (Austria) and online.

Conference theme: Situating Data Practices Beyond Data Universalism.
Deadline: 19th Jan '24"

https://datapowerconference.org/data-power-2024/about-2024

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data, AI anxiety psychological security my privacy knowledge what, how we know emotional well-being literacies	DATA numeric - quantified physical access/security surveillance freedomS machine algorithmic
humanity social - society cultural life civil society wisdom data-related PRACTICES how to envisage a just data society? inequality - discrimination	control governments security agencies economics - politics citizenship rights - injustices private corporations political security POWER

  My source:
https://x.com/juliane_jarke/status/1720118890234106296?s=20

Tides: Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in health Services

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"What is the TIDES study?

The Tackling Inequalities and Discrimination Experiences in health Services (TIDES) study investigates how discrimination experienced by both patients and healthcare practitioners may generate and perpetuate inequalities in health and health service use. The TIDES study is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)."

My source:

https://twitter.com/tides_study/status/1387089743742177289?s=20

Does “#AI” stand for Augmenting Inequality in the era of Covid-19 healthcare? c/o BMJ

Fig 1 Cascading effects of health inequality and discrimination manifest in the design and use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems [BMJ]

Original graphic surgically re-rendered as per the knowledge (care) domains of Hodges' model:

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My source:

Does “#AI” stand for Augmenting Inequality in the era of Covid-19 healthcare? | via @bmj_latest https://t.co/P3zgVBeI4p

— Rob McCargow #MoveForJack (@RobMcCargow) March 16, 2021

Allport's Scale of Prejudice - 1 to 5

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Antilocution: Antilocution occurs when an in-group freely purports negative images of an out-group. Hate speech is included in this stage. Although antilocution itself may not be harmful, it could set the stage for more severe outlets for prejudice (see also ethnic joke). Avoidance: Members of the in-group actively avoid people in the out-group. No direct harm may be intended, but psychological harm often results through isolation (see also social exclusion). Discrimination: The out-group is discriminated against by denying them opportunities and services, putting prejudice into action. Behaviors have the intention of disadvantaging the out-group by preventing them from achieving goals, getting education or jobs, etc. Examples include Jim Crow laws in the US, the Statute of Kilkenny in British Ireland, Apartheid in South Africa, the Nuremberg Laws in 1930's Germany and antisemitic laws in the Middle East. Physical Attack: The in-group vandalizes, burns, or otherwise destroys out-group property and carries out violent attacks on individuals or groups. Physical harm is done to members of the out-group. Examples include pogroms against Jews in Europe, the lynchings of blacks and Italians in the US, ongoing violence against Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India. Extermination: The in-group seeks extermination or removal of the out-group. They attempt to eliminate either the entirety or a large fraction of the undesired group of people. Examples include the Cambodian genocide, the Final Solution in Nazi Germany, the Rwandan genocide, the Armenian Genocide, the Genocide of the Hellenes and ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian War.  Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allport%27s_Scale

 

Gravells, A., Simpson, S. (2009) Equality and Diversity in the Lifelong Learning Sector, Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd. pp.65-66.

See also: 

IMPACT: Prejudice and Discrimination i

Allport, Gordon (1954). The Nature of Prejudice. Cambridge, Mass. Addison-Wesley.

IMPACT: Prejudice and Discrimination i

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PREJUDICE thoughts	DISCRIMINATION actions
DISCRIMINATION actions	DISCRIMINATION actions

 

IMPACT - it's not just a font.

 Prejudice - beware amplification by the media

Gravells, A., Simpson, S. (2009) Equality and Diversity in the Lifelong Learning Sector, Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd. p.50.

India: Health needs of manual scavengers: Does our health system care?

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SELF “In India, a man is not a scavenger  because of his work. He is a scavenger because of his birth irrespective  of the question whether  he does scavenging or not.” – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar	WORLD other Three forms of manual scavenging: 1. removal of human excrement from public streets and dry latrines; 2. cleaning septic tanks; 3. cleaning gutters and sewers. Health risks & risk of death  Reported: 1 death every 5 days Infectious diseases Respiratory diseases Musculo-skeletal Carbon monoxide and methane poisoning Safety, Protective equipment?
OTHERS "Dalits of specific sub-caste and is an archetype of the oppressive legacy of the  hierarchical Hindu varna system"	WORLD others International Labour Organisation The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act (1993) Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act (2013) International Dalit Solidarity Network National Safai Karmachari Commission Rashtriya Garima Abhiyan Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Original source: twitter
https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2018/12/health-needs-of-manual-scavengers-does-our-health-system-care