Health services analysis reveals low specialty mental health utilization among Mexican American immigrants, highlighting gaps in care accessibility and treatment appropriateness.
Immigrants are unlikely to use mental health services, even when they have a recent disorder, but may use general practitioners, which raises questions about the appropriateness, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of mental health care for this population. Several competing hypotheses about the reasons for low utilization of services need to be examined in future research.
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