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Correlates of community mental health center underservice to non‐whites
Author(s) -
Windle Charles
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6629(198004)8:2<140::aid-jcop2290080207>3.0.co;2-t
Subject(s) - catchment area , center (category theory) , mental health , demography , white (mutation) , gerontology , non hispanic whites , population , geography , medicine , psychology , ethnic group , drainage basin , psychiatry , sociology , cartography , mexican americans , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , crystallography , anthropology
The relationships between relatively low utilization rates for non‐whites and catchment area demography and center service characteristics were examined for 142 federally funded community mental health centers. Center characteristics were less strongly related to relative utilization by non‐whites than were area demographic characteristics. Several characteristics of the black population were among those most highly associated with relative non‐white utilization rates.