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Mental health disparities are significant and easily documented. In this Director’s Message, Dr. Gordon discusses NIMH-funded research that aims to close the gap, ensuring that improved mental health care meets the needs of all Americans.
Racial/ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities often suffer from poor mental health outcomes due to multiple factors including inaccessibility of high quality mental health care services, cultural stigma surrounding mental health care, discrimination, and overall lack of awareness about mental health.
Mental health care disparities , defined as unfair differences in access to or quality of care according to race and ethnicity, are quite common in mental health. 1 Although some studies question this consensus, 2, 3 the weight of the evidence supports the existence of serious and persistent mental health care disparities.
Some of the most common reasons mental health disparities exist include stigma, previous negative experiences, limited mental health literacy, lack of culturally aware providers and services, language access, and lack of financial resources.
Mental Health Disparities: Diverse Populations. Mental Health in U.S. Approximately 18% of US adults have a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year, and approximately 4% of adults have a serious mental illness. 1.
Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go. Margarita Alegría, Ph.D. 1 Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. 2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Find articles by Margarita Alegría. 1,2, Amanda NeMoyer. Amanda NeMoyer, J.D., Ph.D.
The CDC definition describes mental health disparities as often falling into one of these three categories: (1) disparities between the attention given mental health and that given other public health issues of comparable magnitude, (2) disparities between the health of persons with mental illness as compared with that of those without, or (3 ...