Stigmatization of hispanic children, pre-adolescents, and adolescents with mental illness: Exploration using a national database

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1025-1041

  Leal, Christina C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISPANIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ADMISSION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31544480654     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840500280695     Document Type: Article

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