Achieving Mental Health Equity

Developing an equitable mental health system has been a dream since my residency in the early 1980s. Throughout my career leading large urban mental health systems, I recognized that health disparities limited treatment options based on race and ethnicity. Leading up to my 2018 American Psychiatric Association (APA) presidency, it became clear that achieving the goal of mental health equity would require specific actions at a national level by leaders who made it a priority. It was for that reason I chose to include diversity and inclusion in my presidential agenda as part of a strategy to reduce the disparities in health and mental health that negatively impact the psychological health of underserved populations, especially racial and ethnic minorities.
Source: The Psychiatric Clinics of North America - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research