Racial and ethnic disparities in depression care in community-dwelling elderly in the United States

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 319-328

  Akincigil, Ayse ^a   Olfson, Mark ^b   Siegel, Michele ^c   Zurlo, Karen A ^a   Walkup, James T ^c   Crystal, Stephen ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c Center for Health Serv Research on Pharma Chronic Disease Manag and Outcomes Rutgers ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857267046     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300349     Document Type: Article

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