Disparity in Depression Treatment Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations in the United States

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Authors

Margarita Alegrı́a · Cambridge Health Alliance

Pinka Chatterji · University at Albany, State University of New York

K. Wells · University of California, Los Angeles

Zhun Cao · Thomson Reuters (United States)

C.-S. Chen · Harvard University Press

David T. Takeuchi · University of Washington

Joseph W. Jackson

Abstract

Simply relying on present health care systems without consideration of the unique barriers to quality care that ethnic and racial minority populations face is unlikely to affect the pattern of disparities observed. Populations reluctant to visit a clinic for depression care may have correctly anticipated the limited quality of usual care.

Topics & Keywords

Mental Health Treatment and Access Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Psychiatric Services

Volume 59, Issue 11, pp. 1264-1272

DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.59.11.1264

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