Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity: The bridge between social science and psychiatry

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 739-752

  Morgan, Craig ^a   Mallett, Rosemarie ^b   Hutchinson, Gerard ^c   Leff, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

African Caribbean; Ethnicity research; Help seeking; Psychiatric services; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL HEALTH;

ANTHROPOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; POLICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 0345735906     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00233-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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