Objectives. We compared differences in mental health needs and provision of mental health
services among residents of Santiago, Chile, with private and public health insurance …

Objectives. Health care reforms associated with managed care may adversely affect the
health care safety net for disadvantaged populations. This study compared changes in …

OBJECTIVES: To address the growing burden of mental illness in Latin America, a better
understanding of mental health service use and barriers to care is needed. Although many …

Objectives. We examined differences in the use of mental health services, conditional on the
presence of psychiatric disorders, across groups of Mexico's population with different US …

AimsTo provide cross-national data for selected countries of the Americas on service
utilization for psychiatric and substance use disorders, the distribution of these services …

Background The present study seeks to evaluate the change in mental health inequalities in
the department of Meta after the signing of Colombia's Peace Agreement in 2016 with the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates place Chile among the countries with the
highest burden of disease from neuropsychiatric illnesses (23.2 percent) in the world. Major …

Purpose Community surveys of mental disorders and service use are important for public
health policy and planning. There is a dearth of information for Latin America. This is the first …

Objective: This study described the rate and adequacy of mental health service use among
participants in the Mexico National Comorbidity Survey and the correlates of any 12-month …

Entre los años 1997 y 1999, el Ministerio de Salud de Chile impulsó la realización de
estudios de la red asistencial en cada una de las 13 regiones del país, con el fin de poder …