Open AccessA Cross-National Study on Prevalence of Mental Disorders, Service Use, and Adequacy of Treatment Among Mexican and Mexican American Populations
Author(s) -
Ricardo Orozco,
Guilherme Borges,
María Elena MedinaMora,
Sergio AguilarGaxiola,
Joshua Breslau
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2012.301169
Subject(s) - national comorbidity survey , mental health , ethnic group , medicine , odds ratio , psychiatric epidemiology , epidemiology , comorbidity , demography , confidence interval , population , odds , gerontology , psychiatry , environmental health , logistic regression , pathology , sociology , anthropology
We examined differences in the use of mental health services, conditional on the presence of psychiatric disorders, across groups of Mexico's population with different US migration exposure and in successive generations of Mexican Americans in the United States.