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

Psychiatric Services · 2008 · Vol. 59(11) · pp. 1264–1272

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(University of Michigan–Ann Arbor)Xiao‐Li Meng(Harvard University Press)

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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.

Mental Health Treatment and Access Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Racial and Ethnic Identity ResearchEthnic groupDepression (economics)DemographyMedicinePsychiatryPsychologyGerontologyPolitical scienceSociology

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AdolescentAdultAgedDepressionEthnicityFemaleHealth Services AccessibilityHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedQuality of Health CareUnited StatesLogistic ModelsHealth Care Surveys