Collected Item: “Mental Health Care Was Severely Inequitable, Then Came the Coronavirus Crisis”
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Mental Health Care Was Severely Inequitable, Then Came the Coronavirus Crisis
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News Article
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This article describes how the Covid-19 pandemic has compounded the mental health disparity in the United States. As the title suggests, those suffering from mental illness already did not receive equitable treatment; the pandemic has widened this inequality through a variety of issues, chiefly, disruption of service that was already minimal.
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#mentalhealth, #healthcare, #inequality
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https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/disability/reports/2020/09/10/490221/mental-health-care-severely-inequitable-came-coronavirus-crisis/
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Center for American Progress
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2020-09-10