What Are the Different Forms of Mental Illness Discrimination?

Illness discrimination refers to the difference between the conditions stipulated by the law and the individual's health status, often unfair treatment and services, including direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. From the perspective of the definition of disease discrimination, it includes discrimination of physical disease and psychological disease, including mental illness, physical disease, liver disease, AIDS, disability and other diseases, with disability being the most severe.

Disease discrimination

Illness discrimination refers to the difference between the conditions stipulated by the law and the individual's health status, often unfair treatment and services, including direct discrimination and indirect discrimination. From the perspective of the definition of disease discrimination, it includes discrimination of physical disease and psychological disease, including mental illness, physical disease, liver disease, AIDS,

There is no right in the world

What is caused by external factors

The nature of social discrimination: the same people (things) are treated differently, or different people (things) are treated the same. Specifically, discrimination is not based on ability, contribution, cooperation, etc., but based on status such as identity, gender, race, or socioeconomic resource ownership, and treats members of society differently, paying too much attention to each other's deficiencies and ignoring their difficulties To reach the point of light to achieve unreasonable ends. As a result, the power of certain social groups and certain members of society is deprived, and an unjust social phenomenon is created.

Xiao Jun, a 27-year-old from Sichuan province, applied for a position as a music teacher in Yanbian Primary School in June 2010. He passed the written test and interview and was told to carry HIV before reporting to the school. He was rejected. Xiaojun's personal privacy was leaked by the Education Bureau and the Personnel Bureau during the negotiation with relevant departments. On October 20, Xiaojun brought the county Education Bureau and the Personnel Bureau to court, and the case is still pending.

Xiao Wu and Xiao Jun's experience is better than other people living with HIV. At least the court has filed their case, but others are not so lucky. Wang Qiuyun (female) from Hebi, Henan, was a maternal and child cadre in the county's medical system and contracted HIV through blood transfusion. She was found to be living with HIV for the first time in 2005. She was brought to court in the hospital that year, but has not yet heard a trial since the case was filed.

Zhang Xian, 23, joins Anhui

Improve legislation and strengthen law enforcement.

Facing the increasing spread of disease discrimination. All countries are actively taking measures. Many countries have already introduced anti-discrimination legislation. E.g. The "Disability Discrimination Ordinance" promulgated by the Hong Kong government, the European Union has also issued a unified anti-discrimination bill, and the United Kingdom and the United States have also formulated special Anti-Employment Discrimination Law or Equal Employment Law to eliminate discrimination, including genetic discrimination The adverse social impact. Therefore, some scholars actively advocate that an Anti-Discrimination Law should be promulgated as soon as possible. Improving legislation can give a clear positioning to discrimination, and can provide corresponding relief and protection to those who are discriminated against.

As far as the current law is concerned, the principles of equality and anti-discrimination have been stipulated in the Constitution, the Labor Law, etc., but in reality there is a phenomenon that cannot be ignored: there is a gray area that shirks responsibilities, and some The phenomenon mostly originates from the gray areas under the jurisdiction of two or more institutions. In the face of the problem of disease discrimination, the administrative agencies are in a state of self-protection, and each department pushes against each other, resulting in an unmanaged situation. Therefore, if we want to solve the problem of disease discrimination, we must not only improve the legislation, but also clarify the responsibilities of various administrative agencies, so that law enforcement departments can truly "make love for the people, power for the people, and benefit for the people."

Improve the social security system

Improving the social security system is fundamental to solving the problem of discrimination against diseases. On the one hand, the government should increase investment and rely on the community to build a flexible and effective community health service system. Community medical service agencies can provide daily necessary medical services for patients with special diseases to help patients recover as quickly as possible. At the same time, taking the community as a unit, it can not only grasp and understand the daily life dynamics of the sick, but also provide timely and necessary material help or spiritual comfort to the sick, so that the sick can feel the warmth of the society, and avoid the extremes of the sick. Hate society. On the other hand, the government must improve the social insurance system. When the sick are fired due to discrimination in the employment field due to special illnesses, a comprehensive social insurance mechanism can ensure their normal lives and prevent people with illnesses from committing crimes because they cannot maintain normal lives after being unemployed.

Building a harmonious cultural atmosphere

Monday s homicide incident due to disease discrimination; Hangzhou s AIDS pickpocket gang case cracked by Hangzhou police; Li Zhixing, an AIDS patient in Henan Province, retaliated by killing 8 people with a knife because he could not stand the indifference and discrimination of his neighbors and family. One person was seriously injured, and Li Zhixing, who had no way to escape, finally committed suicide. The tragedy of this scene is incompatible with our concept of "harmonious society" today. The author believes that on how to eliminate discrimination, China must not only reform and establish various systems and mechanisms on the hardware, but also strive to rebuild a new cultural concept on the software.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have advocated the idea of "harmony between man and nature". And the "harmonious society" advocated by today's society advocates stable and orderly harmony between man and nature, and between people. When faced with patients with special diseases, society should be tolerant, accept them, give them humane care, and let them return to society as soon as possible instead of being excluded from society. This is what a harmonious society should be. Therefore, the whole society should strive to create a harmonious cultural atmosphere, treat the sick with the usual heart, and maintain a tolerant attitude.

Establish self-regulatory organization against disease discrimination

Women's federations, child protection associations and other self-regulatory organizations have played a significant role in protecting the rights and interests of women and children. Therefore, I believe that in order to protect the legitimate rights and interests of these people with special diseases from discrimination, we also A self-regulatory organization can be established to protect the legitimate interests of this particular group. For example, the Red Ribbon Volunteer Organization, which was specifically established for AIDS patients, plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the rights of AIDS patients. Therefore, the establishment of an anti-discrimination self-regulatory organization can create a home for the victims. After being discriminated against and treated unfairly, they can have a platform for them to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests and assert their justice.