Community deteraiinants of latinos' use of mental health services

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 408-413

  Aguilera, Adrian ^a   López, Steven Regeser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRATION; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047681465     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2008.59.4.408     Document Type: Article

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