Open AccessIntegrating Mental Health in Safety-net Primary Care
Author(s) -
Lucinda B. Leung,
Christopher T. Benitez,
Charmaine Dorsey,
Anish P. Mahajan,
Gerhard Hellemann,
Fiona Whelan,
Nina J. Park,
Joel T. Braslow
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001637
Subject(s) - medicine , mental health , medical diagnosis , odds ratio , depression (economics) , psychiatry , confidence interval , anxiety , odds , health care , family medicine , logistic regression , pathology , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
Beginning in 2010, Los Angeles County Departments of Health Services and Mental Health collaborated to increase access to effective mental health care. The Mental Health Integration Program (MHIP) embedded behavioral health specialists in primary care clinics to deliver brief, problem-focused treatments, and psychiatric consultation support for primary care-prescribed psychotropic medications.