Mental Health Disparities

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Mental Health Disparities Among Ethnic Minorities This paper addresses the mental health disparities among ethnic minorities and the advocacy for resolving these concerns. Access to mental health services refers to providers’ ability to give direct and timely services to consumers who request or need these services (La Roche & Turner, 2002). Mental health services have been significantly decreasing lately due to pressures to limit health care expenditures in general. The world has an ongoing growth of diversity. Unfortunately, ethnic minorities are identified as a population that is vulnerable to mental health disparities and face unique challenges (Holden et al., 2014). Researchers have come up with numerous factors that may have contributed