Human rights and equity in mental health services

Authors

  • Marina Morrow

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/a2m4be38

Author Biography

  • Marina Morrow

    Marina Morrow is a professor at the School of Health Policy and Management in the Faculty of Health at York University. She uses critical mental health and intersectional approaches in her work to better understand the social, political, and institutional processes through which health and mental health policies and practices are developed and how social and health inequities are sustained or attenuated for different populations. Marina strongly supports public scholarship and the work and activism of the Mad movement and Mad scholars. Marina is the lead editor (with Dr. Halinka Malcoe) of Critical Inquiries for Social Justice in Mental Health (University of Toronto Press, 2017).

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Published

2021-08-31

How to Cite

Human rights and equity in mental health services. (2021). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/a2m4be38