Unequal treatment: Mental health care for sexual and gender minority groups in a rural state

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 867-870

  Willging, Cathleen E ^a   Salvador, Melina ^a   Kano, Miria ^a  

^a Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; GENDER BIAS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOMOPHOBIA; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MINORITY GROUP; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES; ETHNOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; MENTAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

BISEXUALITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MINORITY GROUPS; NEW MEXICO; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 85045742875     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2006.57.6.867     Document Type: Article

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