How Racism impacts Mental Health in the Workplace

Running head: LITERATURE REVIEW
How Racism impacts Mental Health in the Workplace
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Abstract
Discrimination means denying equal treatment to people. People from the poor socio-
economic background or people who are from minority classes become victims of racial
discrimination. Racial discrimination creates a sense of immense depression among the
victims. The paper conducted a systematic review based on the search of the literary articles
on the topic, "How racism impacts mental health in the workplace?". The analysis of the
literary articles highlighted that racial discrimination increases psychological demands along
with the generation of poor self-esteem and high sense of depression. This further hampers
the level of organisational productivity. However, the analysis of the review did not highlight
any significant studies conducted over the racial discrimination over the immigrants in
Australia under the hospital settings and how it impact their mental health. Hence the future
research scope will be directed towards this research gap.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Search Strategy...........................................................................................................................3
Databases................................................................................................................................4
Keywords and combination of keywords...............................................................................4
Inclusion and exclusion criteria.............................................................................................4
Flow chart...............................................................................................................................8
Critical analysis of literature......................................................................................................9
Summary table of literature......................................................................................................11
Summary of the review............................................................................................................14
Gaps in research.......................................................................................................................14
Further research proposal.........................................................................................................15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16

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LITERATURE REVIEW
Topic: How racism impacts mental health in the workplace?
Introduction
Discrimination is defined as an act of denying equal treatment to the people because
of their groups, skin colour or due to their ethnic background (Triana, Jayasinghe and Pieper
2015).Racial discrimination denies people from ethnic and racial minority backgrounds from
comprehensive access to basic rights like ability to take part equally and freely in social
activity and equitable service provision (Ferdinand, Paradies and Kelaher 2015). According
to Walker (2012), Australia has long considered as immigrant nation. Each year the total
number of Australians who are born overseas increases. These immigrants are first kept in the
detention centres is it’s a part of mandatory rule in Australia since 1992 (Australian Human
Rights Commission 2014.). According to Newman, Proctor and Dudley (2013) the
immigrants in the detention centre in Australia becomes a victim of the racial discrimination
and other kind of mental torture which decreases their overall health related quality of life.
According to the reports published by the ABC news Australia New Zealand and the South
Sudanese immigrants report highest level of discrimination in the healthcare centres which
force them to pass on to depression. The following paper aims to analyse the impacts of racial
discriminationon the mental health under the workplace settings with a special focus on the
immigrants’ workers and the immigrant service users in healthcare.
Search Strategy
The main search strategy that was used for the systematic review was electronic
search of articles through online databases.