Several articles in the December issue of Psychiatric Services (fee required) address cultural and racial differences in seeking psychiatric help, how language and ethnicity affect treatment, and how resources are spent. Conspicuous differences emerge, including “less care to persons in African-American and Hispanic minority groups than to whites,” according to one study examining disparities between 2000-2004. Stigma around mental health services might also explain ethnic differences for seeking help by women with depression.
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