African and Caribbean men and mental health

The mental health needs of African and Caribbean men is an area for public concern. A substantial body of research shows that these groups are disproportionately represented in mental health statistics. For example, the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection’s (2007) report on a one-day census of mental health inpatient wards in England paints a bleak picture for black and minority ethnic people, in particular those of African and Caribbean background. This disturbing situation persists despite the fact that the needs, issues and concerns of black and minority ethnic people with mental health problems have been pushed to the fore of the policy agenda (Department of Health (DH), 2003; DH, 2005). It has been acknowledged that achieving good A Race Equality Foundation Briefing Paper

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• Mental health advocacy and African and Caribbean men

  Open Access•Karen Newbigging, Mick Mckeown et al.•Health Expectations•2013

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• Researching Mental Health in Minority Ethnic Communities

  Open Access•Jorun Rugkåsa, Krysia Canvin•Qualitative Health Research•2011

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• Investigating the influence of African American and African Caribbean race on primary care doctors' decision making about depression

  Open Access•A Adam, Alexander J Adams et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2014

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• Real world analysis the partner of prevention in mental health

  Open Access•Norma Johnson•Ethnicity and Inequalities in…•2009

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• Racism and Mental Health

  Open Access•Evelyn L Barbee, Evelyn Barbee•Journal of the American…•2002

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• Racism, psychosis and common mental disorder among ethnic minority groups in England

  Open Access•Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo et al.•Psychological Medicine•2005

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• Fear, black people and mental illness

  Open Access•Frank Keating, David Robertson•Health & Social Care in the…•2004

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• Life events, ethnicity and perceptions of discrimination in patients with severe mental illness

  Open Access•Catherine Gilvarry, C M Gilvarry et al.•Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric…•1999

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• Negative pathways to psychiatric care and ethnicity

  Open Access•Craig Morgan, Rosemarie Mallett et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2004

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• Race, Identities and Lives

  Open Access•Caroline Knowles•The Sociological Review•1999

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