Core--Mental Health

少数民族对精神卫生保健的需求得不到满足的情况尤其严重。然而，尽管明显需要心理健康服务，但穷人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性低于富人。此外，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人比非西班牙裔白人更不可能寻求心理健康治疗。未得到满足的心理健康治疗需求仍然很大，在贫困、少数民族和少数种族人口中最高。当少数民族人口接受精神卫生保健时，他们相对不太可能从精神卫生专家那里得到它。穷人和少数民族人口不成比例地依赖初级保健提供者提供心理健康治疗，并依赖朋友、家人或神职人员等非正式护理来源。 心理健康研究核心的总体目标是促进对低收入少数民族人口心理健康干预措施的发展和研究评价。人权委员会将通过三个具体目标来实现这一总体目标：（1）在接受过服务评估培训的心理健康研究人员与提供社会和健康服务的社区机构之间建立更强有力的合作关系;（2）促进以社区为基础的干预措施研究，以改善低收入成年人、少数民族成年人和儿童获得心理健康的机会;以及（3）确定和实施机制，将心理健康研究扩展到与减少获得心理健康护理方面的族裔和种族差异有关的领域。在 为实现这些目标，人权事务部将开展四项反映社区优先事项的相关活动：（1）促进社区心理健康的伙伴关系会议;（2）社区心理健康讲习班;（3）关于少数民族心理健康的系列讲座;（4）二级数据分析方案，重点关注心理健康服务以及推动人权事务部使命的流行病学和临床干预研究。

Unmet need for mental health care is particularly great in minority populations. Yet despite evident need for mental health services, poor people are less likely to seek mental health treatment than wealthier individuals. Moreover, African-Americans and Hispanics are less likely to seek mental health treatment than non-Hispanic whites. Unmet need for mental health treatment remains considerable and is highest among poor, ethnic and racial minority populations. When minority population do receive mental health care, they are comparatively less likely to receive it from mental health specialists. Poor and minority populations rely disproportionately on primary care providers for mental health treatment and on informal sources of care such as friends, family or clergy. The overall aim of the Mental Health Research Core (MHRC) is to facilitate the development and research evaluation of mental health interventions on low-income minority populations. The MHRC will purse this overall aim through three specific objectives: (1) develop stronger collaborations between mental health researchers trained in service evaluation and community agencies that provide social and health services; (2) promote community-based research on interventions to improve mental health access for low income adults minority adults and children; and (3) identify and implement mechanism to extend mental health research into areas relevant to reducing ethnic and racial disparities in access to mental health care. In addressing these objectives, the MHRC will carry out four related activities reflecting community priorities: (1) partnerships conferences for community mental health promotion, (2) community mental health workshops, (3) a lecture series on minority mental health, and (4) a secondary data analysis program concentrating on mental health services and epidemiological and clinical intervention research that advances the MHRC mission.