Self-rated mental health and racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service use

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 915-923

  Zuvekas, Samuel H ^a   Fleishman, John A ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health service use; Racial ethnic disparities; Self rated mental health

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; PRESCRIPTION; SELF CONCEPT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 50949115043     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31817919e5     Document Type: Article

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