Reflections on the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity.

Race and Ethnic Differences in the Associations between Cardiovascular Diseases, Anxiety, and Depression in the United States

Introduction: Although cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders are linked, it is not yet known if such links are independent of comorbid medical diseases and if these associations depend on race and ethnicity. This study aimed to determine if the associations between cardiovascular diseases with general anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive episode (MDE) are ind...

An introduction to the politics of science: culture, race, ethnicity, and the Supplement to the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health.

In Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS] 2001), the widely anticipated Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (USDHHS 1999), Dr David Satcher declared that clear ethnic disparities exist with regard to mental health service provision and the underlying science base. As a result, the report asserted that compared ...

Health and mental health policies' role in better understanding and closing African American-White American disparities in treatment access and quality of care.

Since publication of the U.S. Surgeon General's report Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity--A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001), several federal initiatives signal a sustained focus on addressing African American-White American disparities in mental health treatment access and quality and open the way to unpr...

More Similar than Different? Exploring Cultural Models of Depression among Latino Immigrants in Florida

The Surgeon General's report, "Culture, Race, and Ethnicity: A Supplement to Mental Health," points to the need for subgroup specific mental health research that explores the cultural variation and heterogeneity of the Latino population. Guided by cognitive anthropological theories of culture, we utilized ethnographic interviewing techniques to explore cultural models of depression among foreig...

Dispelling the myths and stigma of mental illness: the Surgeon General's report on mental health.