Is the Black-White Mental Health Paradox Consistent Across Gender and Psychiatric Disorders?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 314-322

  Erving, Christy L ^a   Thomas, Courtney S ^b   Frazier, Cleothia ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; mental disorders; National Comorbidity Survey Replication; National Survey of American Life; race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; MENTAL DISORDER; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; COMORBIDITY; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SEX FACTOR; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85061010746     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy224     Document Type: Article

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