Policies that are stigmatising are likely to be equally counterproductive.
For some survivors, being stigmatised is the least of their worries.
The ability to stigmatise and be stigmatised is closely linked linked to our social nature in which the opinions of our peers and those we interactive with are of considerable importance.
HCPs perceived that older people normalised falls, felt stigmatised, were fatalistic, as well as in denial regarding falls-related advice.
You'd often find midwifes not providing abortions because they fear the victimisation, being stigmatised, being isolated from their peers, and also within the community itself.
Perceptions of feeling stigmatised were used, in some cases, as a reaffirmation, highlighting what they considered as "inconsistencies" with respect to other health problems.
No child opted out (figure 2) and no adverse events (eg, child feeling stigmatised) were reported by parents, teachers or children in questionnaires, focus groups or individual discussions.
Enforcing strict, old-established rules and stigmatising variation is ultimately pointless because language will evolve, eventually, anyway.
In each country, some stigmatising beliefs were more strongly endorsed than others.
In general, stigmatising attitudes were less common among the Australian than the Japanese respondents.
