The Relevance of Policy, Practices and Other Dynamics in the Lives of People Facing Mental Health and Addictions Challenges and Homelessness

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dc.contributor.advisorMallette, Claire
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Jacqueline Arlene
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-18T18:01:17Z
dc.date.available2024-03-18T18:01:17Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-16
dc.date.updated2024-03-16T10:45:55Z
dc.degree.disciplineNursing
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMScN - Master of Science in Nursing
dc.description.abstractLimited research explicitly addresses the diverse experiences of people who face mental health and addictions challenges and homelessness (MHACH) in rural Canada, although it is well documented that they face significant health inequities. This critical ethnography, exploring how policies and dynamics affect the lived experience of adults facing MHACH in rural Southwestern Ontario, aimed to enhance responsive policy and supports. Using purposive convenience sampling, semi-structured interviews were completed with four people with lived experience (PWLE) and three key informants. Using conventional content analysis and critical social theory, themes emerging from the narratives illustrated the complexity of PWLE’s lives, survival strategies and resourcefulness. PWLE were contradictorily visible and invisible, encountering profound barriers to care such as stigma and discrimination that resulted in their feeling “less than human”. Nursing implications include the importance of giving voice to PWLE, so we can understand how policy and practice decisions impact their everyday lives.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41891
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectMental health
dc.subjectNursing
dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsMental health
dc.subject.keywordsAddictions
dc.subject.keywordsHomelessness
dc.subject.keywordsRural
dc.subject.keywordsHealth equity
dc.subject.keywordsStructural determinants of health
dc.subject.keywordsNursing
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy
dc.subject.keywordsPractice
dc.subject.keywordsCritical ethnography
dc.subject.keywordsDiscrimination
dc.subject.keywordsStigma
dc.subject.keywordsVoice
dc.subject.keywordsPeople with lived experience
dc.titleThe Relevance of Policy, Practices and Other Dynamics in the Lives of People Facing Mental Health and Addictions Challenges and Homelessness
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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