This book offers evidence-based clinical approaches for understanding disparities in the
provision of mental-health services in the US and other industrialized nations. Chapters …

Health disparities, defined as population-specific differences in the prevalence, onset,
severity of disease, and differential access to health care, is a rising issue in the mental …

Mental health is fundamental to health, according to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon
General, the first Surgeon General's report ever to focus exclusively on mental health. That …

This article investigates the gap in access to and quality of mental health care in the United
States. This work first discusses how minority populations are most affected by the treatment …

This Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (US Department of
Health and Human Services [DHHS], 1999) documents the existence of striking disparities …

Mental health is fundamental to health, according to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon
General, the first Surgeon General's report ever to focus exclusively on mental health. That …

Open Forum been known to be culturally biased in their criteria (13). For example, African
Americans often score higher on measures of mistrust and paranoia, which, if not …

Minorities have, in general, equal or better mental health than white Americans, yet they
suffer from disparities in mental health care. This paper reviews the evidence for mental …

The article discusses ethnocultural disparities in mental health care and the efforts and
challenges in addressing the issue as of August 2014. Topics discussed include …

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine, commenting on “Unequal Treatment,” defined “disparity”
as a “difference in healthcare quality not due to differences in health care needs or …