Exploring the impact of stigma on the health of inclusion health groups: a qualitative scoping review and critical analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health inequalities have widened globally over the past decade, disproportionately affecting socially excluded populations broadly defined as 'inclusion health groups'. These groups, including people experiencing homelessness, migrants, sex workers, people with substance use disorders, victims of modern slavery, and those in contact with the justice system, face compounded negative health consequences often exacerbated by stigma. This scoping review aimed to examine qualitative literature exploring how stigma impacts the physical and mental health of inclusion health groups. Building on the work of Link and Phelan, Tyler, and Hatzenbuehler, this review situates stigma as a relational and structural process that operates through power, policy, and institutions to shape he

SUBMITTER: Price T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12764128 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature