Racism as a Social Determinant of Mental Health in Higher Education: Sector-Level Perspectives From South Africa and Australia

Xuan Luu; Veena Abraham

doi:10.3389/ijph.2024.1607502

Racism as a Social Determinant of Mental Health in Higher Education: Sector-Level Perspectives From South Africa and Australia

Int J Public Health. 2024 Nov 22:69:1607502. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1607502. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Xuan Luu¹, Veena Abraham²

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine and Public Health, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
² Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.

No abstract available

Keywords: higher education; institutional trust; mental health; racial disparities; social determinants.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. XL was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. VA was supported by a National Research Foundation Thuthuka Grant (grant number: 129898).