Unravelling the complexities of inequalities in mental healthcare and outcomes for cultural and linguistic minorities

Abstract

This is a reappraisal of psychiatric morbidity in North Americans from Indigenous backgrounds, or those from longstanding minority communities. Psychiatric morbidity is often no higher when compared with controls that are similar in other sociodemographic features. Interventions should therefore take into account that disadvantage is rarely from one cause.

Natural Language Processing for Mental Disorders: An Overview

“…This gap points to the existence of linguistic inequality in the development of NLP approaches to mental disorders, which could be somewhat rectified (at the very least) by the organisation of shared tasks using non-English social media data. This linguistic coverage gap in the publicly available datasets together with the known difficulties those with a linguistic and/or cultural minority background encounter to access mental healthcare (Kisely, 2020;Mianji et al, 2020) make it clear that linguistic inequalities in mental healthcare are a major source of concern.…”