Disparate patterns of hospitalisation reflect unmet needs and persistent ethnic inequalities in mental health care: The Scottish health and ethnicity linkage study

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-239

  Bansal, Narinder ^a   Bhopal, Raj ^a   Netto, Gina ^b   Lyons, Donald ^c   Steiner, Markus F C ^a   Sashidharan, Sashi P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Argyle House   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compulsory treatment; Data linkage; Ethnicity; Mental health; Psychiatric disorder

Indexed keywords

AGE; CAR OWNERSHIP; DATA ACQUISITION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSING; MENTAL HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84896120365     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2013.814764     Document Type: Article

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