The costs and benefits of reducing racial-ethnic disparities in mental health care

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 389-396

  Lê Cook, Benjamin ^a,b   Liu, Zimin ^a   Lessios, Anna Sophia ^a   Loder, Stephen ^a   McGuire, Thomas ^b  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; PHARMACY; RACE DIFFERENCE; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84926678360     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201400070     Document Type: Article

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