Use of mental health services by Asian Americans

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 746-748

  Barreto, Rose M ^a,b   Segal, Steven P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Mental Health and Social Welfare Research Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN AMERICANS; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20044365996     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.56.6.746     Document Type: Article

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