Health care expenditures and use are challenging to model because these dependent
variables typically have distributions that are skewed with a large mass at zero. In this article …

Despite federal focus on reducing mental health disparities for Black Americans, mental
health disparities persist, resulting in reduced access to and benefit from mental health care …

Objective: This study compared trends in racial-ethnic disparities in mental health care
access among whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians by using the Institute of Medicine …

Covariate balance is crucial for unconfounded descriptive or causal comparisons. However,
lack of balance is common in observational studies. This article considers weighting …

Objective To provide a tutorial for using propensity score methods with complex survey data.
Data Sources Simulated data and the 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Study …

Supplement to “Propensity score weighting for causal inference with multiple treatments”.
Supplement A: On Transitivity. We provide a detailed discussion on transitivity of the target …

More than one-third of the approximately two million people entering publicly funded
substance abuse treatment in the United States do not complete treatment. Additionally …

Objective To investigate disparities in mental health care episodes, aligning our analyses
with decisions to start or drop treatment, and choices made during treatment. Study Design …

Objective To examine trends in mental health care use for Black and Latinx children and
adolescents. Method Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey for 2010-2017 were …

Background Minority groups generally experience more disparities than whites in behavioral
healthcare use. The population of racial/ethnic groups is growing faster than whites. Given …