Geographic Access to Specialty Mental Health Care Across High- and Low-Income US Communities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

With the future of the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid program unclear, it is critical to examine the geographic availability of specialty mental health treatment resources that serve low-income populations across local communities.

Objectives

To examine the geographic availability of community-based specialty mental health treatment resources and how these resources are distributed by community socioeconomic status.

Design, setting, and participants

Measures of the availability of specialty mental health treatment resources were derived using national data for 31 836 zip code tabulation areas from 2013 to 2015. Analyses examined the association between community socioeconomic status (assessed by median household income quartiles) and resource availability

SUBMITTER: Cummings JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5693377 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature