Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites

Alegrı́a, Margarita; Canino, Glorisa; Ríos, Ruth; Vera, Mildred; Calderón, José; Rusch, Dana; N. Ortega, Alexander

doi:10.1176/appi.ps.53.12.1547

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Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites

Published in Psychiatric Services • Dec 1, 2002

Authors:

Margarita Alegrı́a

Glorisa Canino

Ruth Ríos

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated whether there are disparities in the rates of specialty mental health care for Latinos and African Americans compared with non-Latino whites in the United States. METHODS: Data were analyzed from the 1990-1992 National Comorbidity Survey, which surveyed a probabil...

Subject

Ethnic group

Specialty

Residence

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