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Achieving Mental Health Equity: Children and Adolescents
Toi Blakley Harris1, Sade C Udoetuk2, Sala Webb3
1Psychiatry, Institutional Diversity, Inclusion and Equity & Student and Trainee Services, Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, PI/PD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Pediatrics, Institutional Diversity, Inclusion and Equity & Student and Trainee Services, Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, PI/PD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Family and Community Medicine, Institutional Diversity, Inclusion and Equity & Student and Trainee Services, Center of Excellence in Health Equity, Training and Research, PI/PD, Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Abstract:
This article briefly reviews the influences of protective and risk factors of child and adolescent mental health, and explores promising practices and outcomes of evidence-based programs designed to improve the mental health of youth, and the barriers for accessing quality and evidence-based child and adolescent mental health service delivery systems. The authors provide recommendations for individual practice improvements and policy, funding, and organizational practice improvements that will support mental health equity in child and adolescent populations.
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