Behavioral Health Equity

Behavioral Health Equity is the right to access quality health care for all populations regardless of the individual’s race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, geographical location and social conditions through prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use conditions and disorders.
About Behavioral Health Equity

Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.  For the purposes of measurement, health equity means reducing and ultimately eliminating disparities in health and its determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups. (Braverman, 2017)

Behavioral health equity builds on this definition and directs specific attention to mental health and substance use conditions and disorders.

AANHPI

The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) population resources include: 

  • Behavioral health and in-language resources
  • National survey data and reports
  • Federal initiatives and related resources
Black or African American

Resources for the Black or African American population include:

  • Behavioral health resources
  • National survey data and reports
  • Federal initiatives and related resources
Hispanic or Latino

Resources for the Hispanic or Latino population include:

  • Behavioral health and in-language resources
  • National survey data and reports
  • Federal initiatives and related resources
American Indian and Alaska Native

The American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) population resources include:

  • Tribal affairs resources and communication
  • Behavioral health resources
  • National survey data and reports
  • Federal initiatives and related resources
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

LGBT population resources include:

  • Behavioral health resources
  • National survey data and reports
  • Federal initiatives and related resources
Last Updated: 12/18/2018