Meeting the Behavioral Health Needs of Farm Families in Times of Economic Distress
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Description
Offers strategies to support development and integration of
behavioral health services across healthcare and
community-based organizations, including leveraging payment
systems to support coordinated care for farm families and
aligning federal grant programs to address mental health
and substance use disorders. Features recommendations
including integrating primary and behavioral care for
initial treatment of mental health and substance misuse
concerns, expanding the workforce to improve rural
behavioral health services capacity, increasing telehealth
services, and expanding private and public insurance
coverage.
Author(s)
Andrew F. Coburn, Alva O. Ferdinand, Alana Knudson, et al.
Date
02/2022
Organization
Rural Policy Research Institute Rural Health Panel
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· Behavioral health workforce
· Care coordination
· Farmers and farmworkers
· Funding
· Medicaid
· Medicare
· Mental health
· Policy
· Primary care
· Reimbursement and payment models
· Social determinants of health
· Substance use and misuse
· Telehealth