Racial disparities in prescription drug use for mental illness among population in US

Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 131-143

  Han, Euna ^a   Liu, Gordon G ^b  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINORITY GROUP; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SAMPLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; UNITED STATES;

EID: 26944453973     PISSN: 10914358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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