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Benjamin Lê Cook
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 160
Citations - 5440
Benjamin Lê Cook is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mental health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 144 publications receiving 4149 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Lê Cook include University of Pittsburgh & Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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Trends in smoking among adults with mental illness and association between mental health treatment and smoking cessation.
TL;DR: Between 2004 and 2011, the decline in smoking among individuals with mental illness was significantly less than among those without mental illness, although quit rates were greater among those receiving mental health treatment.
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Trends in Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Access to Mental Health Care, 2004-2012.
TL;DR: No reductions in racial-ethnic disparities in access to mental health care were identified between 2004 and 2012, and disparities were exacerbated over this period for blacks and Hispanics.
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Blacks and Hispanics are less likely than whites to complete addiction treatment, largely due to socioeconomic factors.
Brendan Saloner,Benjamin Lê Cook +1 more
TL;DR: Completion disparities for blacks and Hispanics were largely explained by differences in socioeconomic status and, in particular, greater unemployment and housing instability, but the alcohol treatment disparity for Native Americans was not explained by socioeconomic or treatment variables, a finding that warrants further investigation.
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Measuring trends in mental health care disparities, 2000 2004.
TL;DR: The mental health care system continues to provide less care to persons in African-American and Hispanic minority groups than to whites, suggesting the need for policy initiatives to improve services for these minority groups.
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Implementing the Institute of Medicine Definition of Disparities: An Application to Mental Health Care
TL;DR: This paper proposes an implementation of the Institute of Medicine's definition of a health service disparity between population groups, and applies it to disparities in outpatient mental health care, finding significant service disparities between whites and both blacks and Latinos.