Correlates of community mental health center underservice to non-whites.
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.
D001741:Black or African American; D002391:Catchment Area, Health; D003155:Community Mental Health Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States; D044465:White People