Mental health service use among children and youth in Ontario: Population-based trends over time

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 119-124

  Gandhi, Sima ^a   Chiu, Maria ^a   Lam, Kelvin ^a   Cairney, John C ^a,b   Guttmann, Astrid ^a,c   Kurdyak, Paul ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute care; Adolescent; Child; Emergency department; Mental health; Outpatient; Psychiatric services; Service utilization; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MOOD DISORDER; OUTPATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TIME; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; ONTARIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; ONTARIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84957602055     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0706743715621254     Document Type: Article

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