Core--Mental Health

在少数群体中，未得到满足的精神卫生保健需求尤其大。然而，尽管对心理健康服务的需求显而易见，但与富人相比，穷人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性更小。此外，与非拉美裔白人相比，非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人寻求心理健康治疗的可能性更小。未得到满足的心理健康治疗需求仍然很大，在贫困、族裔和种族少数群体中最高。当少数族裔人口确实接受精神卫生保健时，他们从精神卫生专家那里接受保健的可能性相对较小。穷人和少数群体过度依赖初级保健提供者进行精神健康治疗，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(MHRC)的总体目标是促进针对低收入少数群体的心理健康干预措施的开发和研究评估。人权委员会将通过三个具体目标实现这一总体目标：(1)加强受过服务评估培训的精神卫生研究人员与提供社会和卫生服务的社区机构之间的合作；(2)促进以社区为基础的关于干预措施的研究，以改善低收入成年人、少数族裔成年人和儿童获得精神卫生的机会；以及(3)确定和实施机制，将精神卫生研究扩展到与减少获得精神卫生保健方面的族裔和种族差距有关的领域。在……里面 为实现这些目标，人权委员会将开展四项反映社区优先事项的相关活动：(1)促进社区精神健康的伙伴关系会议，(2)社区精神健康讲习班，(3)关于少数群体精神健康的系列讲座，以及(4)侧重于精神健康服务以及流行病学和临床干预研究的二级数据分析计划，以推进人权委员会的使命。

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.