Geographic Disparities in Access to Specialty Care Programs for Early Psychosis in Washington State.

ABSTRACT: Supported by the 10% set-aside funds in the Community Mental Health Block grant, distributed at the state level, coordinated specialty care (CSC) have been widely disseminated throughout the U.S. This study explores variations in the geographical accessibility of CSC programs by neighborhood level characteristics in Washington State. CSC locations were geocoded. Socioeconomic neighborhood deprivation (i.e., Area deprivation index) and rurality (i.e., Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes) were neighborhood level characteristics extracted from the 2018 American Community Survey. Geographic accessibility of CSC was assessed using a two-step floating catchment area technique and multilevel linear models were used to examine the association between specific neighborhood characteristics and geograph

SUBMITTER: Oluwoye O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9119810 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature