The need to combat stigmatizing dogmas in the midst of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

Anthonio Anthonio Oladele Adefuye; Markes  Butler; Henry Ademola Adeola

doi:10.4081/jphia.2021.1419

The need to combat stigmatizing dogmas in the midst of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic

https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2021.1419

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2021)

Submitted: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 30 July 2020

Published: 4 September 2020

COVID-19, Stigma, health-seeing behaviour, access to healthcare, health education

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Anthonio Anthonio Oladele Adefuye Division of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2380-1487
Markes Butler Free State Provincial Disaster Management Centre, Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Free State Province, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Henry Ademola Adeola
henry.adeola@uct.ac.za
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dear Editor,
Stigmatization is a putative structural barrier to health-seeking behaviour, and radical education of the populace is crucial to ameliorate its detrimental effects. Even before the classic work of Erving Goffman in 1963 on the social psychology of stigma, the practice of fear and avoidance because of the presence of a disease, in particular infectious diseases and in some cases noninfectious disease3 has been in existence in many societies.

Anthonio Oladele Adefuye, A., Butler, M. ., & Adeola, H. A. (2020). The need to combat stigmatizing dogmas in the midst of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2021.1419