People with Mental Illness Struggle with Health Disparities
By Cari Nierenberg, Live Science Contributor | April 17, 2017 03:48am ET
Despite the implementation of major health care reforms in the United States, people with mental health conditions are still finding it difficult to get the health care services they need, a new study suggests.
The researchers found that adults with mental illnesses were about 10 times more likely to put off buying the medications they needed because of the cost of these meds. In addition, adults with mental illnesses were about three times more likely to delay seeking medical care, compared with adults without mental illness. They were also about three times more likely to have visited a doctor more than 10 times in the past year for their overall health problems, and were more likely to be uninsured, according to the study, published today (April 17) in the journal Psychiatric Services.
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