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Claremont McKenna College

Publication Date

Fall 2022

Program Name

Switzerland: Global Health and Development Policy

Abstract

The PLHIV Stigma Index is an ongoing, international study conducted by and for people living with HIV to measure the stigmatization that people living with HIV experience. As a model that has been proven successful in translating to targeted advocacy campaigns, this paper theorizes on how this Stigma Index could be broadened to capture other aspects of healthcare discrimination. With a growing demand for mental health support and a critically underdeveloped mental healthcare framework, understanding the stigma and discrimination that exist for people living with depression is a good place to start. Using mixed methods analysis from existing literature and expert interviews, this study dives into the feasibility of and demand for the development of a depression stigma analysis tool. Despite the large number of experimental design based metrics for this, there is a gap in the existing literature that lies in peer-to-peer qualitative analysis. This paper explores the existing model of the PLHIV Stigma Index, depression stigma, the comparison between depression and HIV, the need for a stigma analytical tool in mental health, the ways that the PLHIV Stigma Index could inform such a tool, and the key considerations of this kind of plan. Finally, tentative recommendations for future policy, advocacy and research are made.

Disciplines

Bioethics and Medical Ethics | Health Psychology | Medicine and Health | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatric and Mental Health

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