Abstract
Summary: Psychiatrists and anthropologists both rely on observation, discourse analysis and access to participants’ internal and external worlds. Ethnographic fieldwork, a key method in medical anthropology, offers a powerful tool to establish a robust evidence base of how to address mental health inequalities in ethnic minority communities.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 664-666 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | British Journal of Psychiatry : The Journal of Mental Science |
| Volume | 227 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 23 Jul 2025 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2025 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- Participant observation
- Intersectionality
- Sikhs
- Interdisciplinary research
- Anthropology
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