Racial/Ethnic Minority Children’s Use of Psychiatric Emergency Care in California’s Public Mental Health System
| Autor: | Anne M. Libby, Neal Wallace, Mary C. Masland, Kya Fawley, Lonnie R. Snowden |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Emergency Medical Services medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Research and Practice medicine.medical_treatment Ethnic group MEDLINE Specialty Child Welfare California Poverty Areas medicine Child and adolescent psychiatry Humans Child Psychiatry Minority Groups Medicaid business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mental health Community Mental Health Services Crisis Intervention Logistic Models Pacific islanders Female business Crisis intervention |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 98:118-124 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| Popis: | Objectives. We examined rates and intensity of crisis services use by race/ethnicity for 351174 children younger than 18 years who received specialty mental health care from California’s 57 county public mental health systems between July 1998 and June 2001. Methods. We used fixed-effects regression for a controlled assessment of racial/ethnic disparities in children’s use of hospital-based services for the most serious mental health crises (crisis stabilization services) and community-based services for other crises (crisis intervention services). Results. African American children were more likely than were White children to use both kinds of crisis care and made more visits to hospital-based crisis stabilization services after initial use. Asian American/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native children were more likely than were White children to use hospital-based crisis stabilization services but, along with Latino children, made fewer hospital-based crisis stabilization visits after an initial visit. Conclusions. African American children used both kinds of crisis services more than did White children, and Asian Americans/Pacific Islander and American Indians/Alaska Native children visited only when they experienced the most disruptive and troubling kind of crises, and made nonrecurring visits. |
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