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Unravelling the complexities of inequalities in mental healthcare and outcomes for cultural and linguistic minorities.

Meshary Khaled N Alotiby
Published in: BJPsych international (2020)
This is a reappraisal of psychiatric morbidity in North Americans from Indigenous backgrounds, or those from longstanding minority communities. Psychiatric morbidity is often no higher when compared with controls that are similar in other sociodemographic features. Interventions should therefore take into account that disadvantage is rarely from one cause.
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