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July 2003, Vol 93, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1034
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

INTEGRATING CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY INTO THE STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES

Leopoldo J. Cabassa, MSW

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Leopoldo J. Cabassa, MSW, Center for Mental Health Services Research, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, Campus Box 1196, One Brookings Drive, St Louis, MO 63130 (e-mail: ljc1@gwbmail.wustl.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Snowden’s article in the February issue of the Journal presents a comprehensive review of the literature regarding the role that practitioners’ bias plays in the development of racial and ethnic disparities in the current mental health system.1 Missing from this review is the growing literature that directly examines the role that culture plays in the expression, presentation, and course of mental illnesses.2–4 The integration of this body of work into the current discussion of mental health disparities in service use and quality of care can help clarify and expand our understanding of the sociocultural processes that create these inequities.

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