Paternalistic legacy and maternal concerns: decisions on mental health patients’ interests in Latvia

    Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

    Description

    This paper explores the attitudes that stakeholders in Latvia espouse towards knowledge production and policy-making process in mental health. It aims to account for the political aloofness of Latvian psychiatric service users and their long-term absence from mental health policy fora.
    Period7 Jun 2023
    Event titlePsychology and Anthropology in a Changing World: 2nd conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology
    Event typeConference
    Conference number2
    OrganiserUniversity of Oslo
    LocationOslo , NorwayShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • Mental health
    • NGO
    • Patient centered medicine
    • patient advocacy organizations
    • Health care policy

    Field of Science

    • 5.4 Sociology

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