Racial disparities in involuntary outpatient commitment: Are they real?

Health Affairs

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 816-826

  Swanson, Jeffrey ^a   Swartz, Marvin ^a   Van Dorn, Richard A ^b   Monahan, John ^c   McGuire, Thomas G ^d   Steadman, Henry J ^e   Robbins, Pamela Clark ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Policy Research Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COURT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT; LAW; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; POPULATION; RACISM; SANITATION; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AMBULATORY CARE; COERCION; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEW YORK; PREJUDICE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 66749147273     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.816     Document Type: Article

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