Initiative: Integration of Physical and Mental Health Services for People with Serious Mental Illness


About the Initiative on Integration of Physical and Mental Health Services for People with Serious Mental Illness

Initiative goal

To understand and improve the physical health and health care of racial/ethnic minorities with serious mental illness [SMI]. To achieve these goals, our work focuses on three areas:

  1. Detecting physical health and health care disparities.
  2. Understanding determinants of disparities at the patient, provider, and system levels.
  3. Developing culturally appropriate interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic health and health care disparities among people with SMI.

Associated projects

Report

We invite you to read our periodic report, Cultural Competence Matters relating to this topic: “Culturally competent smoking cessation interventions for people with serious mental illness.” You may see all of our reports here: Cultural Competence Matters.


To see an alphabetical list of the projects that are being conducted as part of our research initiatives, please click here: Research projects at CECC