Mangalore, R: Equity in mental health and mental health care

Equity in mental health is an important social goal. The need for developing concepts, theories and methods appropriate for measuring equity in this field has been recognised by many. This book addresses these issues by developing a conceptual structure to define equity in mental health and by analysing data from three national psychiatric morbidity surveys for Britain. Income-related inequalities are measured with reference to indicators of mental health which represent different levels of needs for services. Inequity in mental health services ...