“Crazy person is crazy person. It doesn’t differentiate”: an exploration into Somali views of mental health and access to healthcare in an established UK Somali community

Abstract Background Mental health conditions have been shown to disproportionately affect those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Somali communities globally have relatively high levels of mental illness, but low levels of mental health service use, with numerous barriers to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Catherine Linney, Siyan Ye, Sabi Redwood, Abdi Mohamed, Abdullahi Farah, Lucy Biddle, Esther Crawley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-01295-0