Mental Health Care for Latinos: Inequalities in Use of Specialty Mental Health Services Among Latinos, African Americans, and Non-Latino Whites

By Margarita Alegría, G. Canino, R. Ríos, M. Vera, José G. E. Calderón, D. Rusch, A. Ortega. 2002

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The Impact of Mental Illness Stigma on Seeking and Participating in Mental Health Care (2014, background): “The relationship between race and mental health service use is at least partly mediated by socioeconomic status, with some poor ethnicminority groups at greatest risk for low rates of treatment (Alegria et al., 2002).”
Creating trauma-informed systems: Child welfare, education, first responders, health care, juvenile justice. (2008, background): “Finally, routine health care encounters can be a primary gateway for identification of any type of child trauma exposure or traumatic stress reactions, especially for ethnic minority children and adolescents (Alegrı́a et al., 2002).”
Barriers to Community Mental Health Services for Latinos: Treatment Considerations (2006, background): “A considerable amount of research has shown that Latinos generally underutilize mental health services (e.g., Acosta, 1979; Alegria et al., 2002; Flaskerud & Hu, 1992; Garland et al., 2000; Padgett, Patrick, Burns, & Schlesinger, 1994b; Vega et al., 1998; Williams & Collins, 1995).”