TY - JOUR
KW - Cultural meanings of mental illness
KW - Medical anthropology
KW - Poverty
KW - Rural psychiatric services
KW - Social issues
AU - E. Carpenter-Song
AU - C. Snell-Rood
A1 - 
AB - Recent social changes and rising social inequality in the rural United States have affected the experience and meaning of mental illness and treatment seeking within rural communities. Rural Americans face serious mental health disparities, including higher rates of suicide and depression compared with residents of urban areas, and substance abuse rates in rural areas now equal those in urban areas. Despite these increased risks, people living in rural areas are less likely than their urban counterparts to seek or receive mental health services. This Open Forum calls for a research agenda supported by anthropological theory and methods to investigate the significance of this changed rural social context for mental health.
BT - Psychiatric Services
C5 - Healthcare Disparities
CP - 5
CY - United States
DO - 10.1176/appi.ps.201600024
IS - 5
JF - Psychiatric Services
N2 - Recent social changes and rising social inequality in the rural United States have affected the experience and meaning of mental illness and treatment seeking within rural communities. Rural Americans face serious mental health disparities, including higher rates of suicide and depression compared with residents of urban areas, and substance abuse rates in rural areas now equal those in urban areas. Despite these increased risks, people living in rural areas are less likely than their urban counterparts to seek or receive mental health services. This Open Forum calls for a research agenda supported by anthropological theory and methods to investigate the significance of this changed rural social context for mental health.
PP - United States
PY - 2017
SN - 1557-9700; 1075-2730
SP - 503
EP - 506
EP - 
T1 - The Changing Context of Rural America: A Call to Examine the Impact of Social Change on Mental Health and Mental Health Care
T2 - Psychiatric Services
TI - The Changing Context of Rural America: A Call to Examine the Impact of Social Change on Mental Health and Mental Health Care
U1 - Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 27842467
U3 - 10.1176/appi.ps.201600024
VL - 68
VO - 1557-9700; 1075-2730
Y1 - 2017
ER -