The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment
5059.0: Wednesday, November 13, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Mental Health Treatment
Learning Objectives: 1. Recognize variation in treatment patterns among different ethnic populations. 2. Describe some of the challenges in addressing the needs of the different ethnic populations. 3. List some of the implications of research findings to practice and policy.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Presider(s):Arlene Rubin Stiffman, PhD
8:30 AMSchizophrenia Care and Assessment Program (SCAP): Examination of Treatment Pattern Differences by Race
Tami L. Mark, PhD, Liisa Palmer, PhD, Patricia Russo, Joseph Vasey, PhD
8:45 AMEthnic Disparities in Treatment for Schizophrenia across Community Mental Health Catchment Areas
Eri Kuno, PhD, Aileen B. Rothbard, ScD
9:00 AMPsychiatric diagnosis of African-American women with severe and persistent mental illness in an outpatient setting
Briggett C Ford, ACSW, MPH, PhD, Harold Neighbors, PhD
9:15 AMMental illness: Racial, regional, and rural disparities and differences affecting access to health insurance
Jane Nelson Bolin, RN JD
9:30 AMSouthwestern American Indian youth's mental health and use of service configurations
Arlene Rubin Stiffman, PhD, Catherine Woodstock Striley, MSW, Eddie Brown, DSW, Emily Ostmann, BS, Gordon Limb, PhD
Organized by:Mental Health
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA