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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Stigma and its impact on the families of former soldiers of the German Armed Forces: an exploratory study

Military Medical Research, 2018
Background Military families who have a family member with a mental illness see themselves confronted with many demands. Stigmatization is one of these challenges.
Katrin Schuy, Simone Dors, Loni Brants, Marie Horzetzky, Gerd Willmund, Andreas Ströhle, Peter Zimmermann, Heinrich Rau, Stefan Siegel   +8 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

A theory-informed deep learning approach to extracting and characterizing substance use-related stigma in social media

BMC Digital Health
Background Stigma surrounding substance use can result in severe consequences for physical and mental health. Identifying situations in which stigma occurs and characterizing its impact could be a critical step toward improving outcomes for individuals ...
David Roesler, Shana Johnny, Mike Conway, Annie T. Chen   +3 more
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Factors related to stigma among patients with cervical cancer having chemotherapy after surgery in China: A cross-sectional study

Belitung Nursing Journal
Background: Stigma is a significant issue among patients with cervical cancer undergoing postoperative chemotherapy, yet the factors contributing to stigma are not well understood.
Fanglin Wang, Pornpat Hengudomsub, Chutima Chantamit-o-pas   +2 more
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‘The System Can't Cope’: The Service System Response to Alcohol and Other Drug‐Facilitated Sexual Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison, Jacqui Theobald, Kirsty Forsdike, Ingrid Wilson, Elena Wilson, Leesa Hooker   +5 more
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Mediating effects of social detachment in young and middle-aged stroke patients between stigma and ability to return to work

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveTo investigate the mediating effect of social isolation on the relationship between stigma and work ability in young and middle-aged stroke patients.MethodsFrom May 2022 to May 2024, a survey was conducted on young and middle-aged stroke ...
Jinping Dong, Xueying Ding, Yating Wen, Shujie Sun, Jingliang Wu, Jianhua Wang, Yang Fan, Guojing Hu, Zhang Xin, Jiayin Li, Xiaoyan Sun   +10 more
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Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks, Georgia van Toorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Stigma and HIV/AIDS [PDF]

International Journal of Caring Sciences
Social Stigma and HIV ...
Petros Ouzounakis, Aikaterini Frantzana, Christos Iliadis, Kiriaki Tachtsoglou, Vassiliki Diamantidou and Lambrini Kourkouta   +4 more
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The Proprieties of Stigma and the Situation of Human Life in Danger of Stigma

Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2018
It is stated that the properties of stigma have the key role in perceiving social relations and own life situation by the person who is in danger of the process of social stigma (Davidio, Major and Crocer, 2008, p. 27–28).
Magdalena Świgost
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