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New framework created to advance evidence‐based integration in BH settings
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32499
Subject(s) - mental health , plan (archaeology) , substance use , quality (philosophy) , mental illness , public health , primary care , health plan , psychiatry , medicine , health care , nursing , family medicine , political science , geography , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , law
It is a widely known reality that people with mental illness and substance use disorders have high rates of medical morbidity and mortality, largely due to significant disparities in access to high‐quality primary and preventive health care. To address this persistent problem, behavioral health, medical and public charity organizations have banded together to help create and fund a framework to enable mental health and substance use disorder clinics to plan and implement integration to improve patient outcomes.