The use of mental health services among young adults with emotional and behavioural problems: Equal use for equal needs?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 808-815

  Vanheusden, Kathleen ^a,b   van der Ende, Jan ^a   Mulder, Cornelis L ^b,c   Lenthe, Frank J ^b   Verhulst, Frank C ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Mental Health Group Europoort   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioural model of health care use; Emotional and behavioural problems; Mental health service use; Socio demographic inequalities; Young adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NETHERLANDS; POSTAL MAIL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NETHERLANDS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53749087783     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0367-4     Document Type: Article

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