Recognizing and responding to stigma-related barriers in health care

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, Published online: 26 September 2024; doi:10.1038/s41572-024-00554-6
Health-care stigma has profound impacts on health outcomes through reducing health-care uptake, disrupting linkage to and retention in care, and lowering treatment initiation and adherence. Appropriate tools and approaches must be utilized to reduce health-care stigma and to improve health-care quality, engagement and health outcomes for communities at large.