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Resources by Topic: Mental health

Medicaid Behavioral Health Providers Delivering Most Behavioral Health Services via Telehealth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Issue Brief
Examines the extent to which Medicaid behavioral health providers shifted their practices to mostly telebehavioral health services during the COVID-19 pandemic through December 2021. Explores differences between specialty and non-specialty behavioral health providers, providers serving enrollees with mental health conditions versus substance use disorders, and rural and urban providers.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Physician Engagement in Addressing Health-Related Social Needs and Burnout
Results of a 2022 study exploring physicians' engagement in addressing health-related social needs and its association with burnout. Supplementary material features statistics including geographic location with breakdowns by greater or less than 20% rural patient care.
Additional links: Supplementary Content
Author(s): Masami Tabata-Kelly, Xiaochu Hu, Michael J. Dill, et al.
Citation: JAMA Network Open, 7(12), e2452152
Date: 12/2024
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Women Veterans Health Care in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: A Report of the Task Force
Reports on the quality of and access to health care and mental health services for women veterans in Pennsylvania. Explores barriers that women veterans encounter, including eligibility requirements, military sexual trauma, lack of community support systems, and lack of childcare. Mentions rural throughout.
Additional links: Summary
Author(s): Allison Kobzowicz, Stephen J. Kramer, Caitlyn Christie, Wendy L. Baker
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Joint State Government Commission, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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Alabama Vital Statistics, 2022
Statistics on births, deaths, marriage, and population in Alabama in 2022. Includes birth rate, maternal demographics and characteristics, causes of death, divorces and annulments, population estimates, and more. Provides county-by-county data, including county-level maps.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Department of Public Health
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Suicide Care in Kentucky Hospitals
Provides an overview of suicide-related visits in Kentucky hospitals and emergency departments, recent changes, and patient demographics. Features statistics including percentages of suicide-related visits in 2017-2023 in rural and urban Kentucky hospitals, and a county-level map showing locations of psychiatric hospitals.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Kentucky Hospital Association
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Tennessee Child Fatality 2024 Annual Report
Detailed review of deaths of Tennessee children ages 0-17 in 2022. Includes a section on the Sources of Strength program, an initiative to promote mental health and prevent suicides in rural communities.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Tennessee Department of Health
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2024 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report
Report highlights the rate of suicide among veterans and the VA's role in suicide prevention. Discusses the causes of veteran suicide and the steps the VA is taking for suicide prevention. Breaks down rates of suicide by sex, contact with the VHA, and rurality, among other factors. The 2024 report is split into two parts. The second part is added as and additional link.
Additional links: Data Appendix, Part 2: Report Findings
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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Readiness of Our Crisis System for 988: Final Report
Analyzes the readiness of state-level behavioral health crisis systems to absorb increased demand with the implementation of the "988" suicide and crisis hotline. Provides an environmental scan and subject matter expert interviews to examine behavioral health availability and accessibility, state improvement plans, and data collection efforts. Includes reflection on the impact of "988" on rural areas.
Author(s): Kiersten Johnson, Shannon Blakey, Tami Mark, et al.
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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Market Selection Insights for New Mental Healthcare Facilities in Rural Illinois
Analyzes rural areas in Illinois that have an appropriate demand center, traffic flow, and mental healthcare need to locate a new mental healthcare facility. Provides a metro versus nonmetro list of residential mental health and substance use facilities as well as projected finances of a new mental health facility in a nonmetro location.
Author(s): Adee Athiyaman
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs
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Data Brief: Mental Health Conditions among Ohio Children and Youth
Provides data on childhood mental health conditions based on 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data. Includes data on mental health with breakdowns according to age, sex, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, family income, Medicaid enrollees, percentage of behavioral health diagnoses per county, type of mental health condition, and more.
Author(s): Becky Carroll, Lexi Chirakos, Jacob Santiago, June Postalakis
Date: 12/2024
Sponsoring organization: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
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