This article reports on trends in disparities in mental health care by use of an improved method that applies the Institute of Medicine (IOM) definition of racial-ethnic disparities. Data from the 2000-2001 and 2003-2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys were used to estimate trends in two...

This article reports on trends in disparities in mental health care by use of an improved method that applies the Institute of Medicine (IOM) definition of racial-ethnic disparities. Data from the 2000-2001 and 2003-2004 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys were used to estimate trends in two...

In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines a health service disparity between population groups to be the difference in treatment or access not justified by the differences in health status or preferences of the groups. This paper proposes an implementation of this definition...