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Delivering Mental Health Services to the Persistently and Seriously Mentally Ill in Frontier Areas
Author(s) -
Wagenfeld Morton O.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.439
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1748-0361
pISSN - 0890-765X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2000.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - frontier , mentally ill , mental health , rural area , health services , geography , rural population , human services , population , environmental health , business , economic growth , medicine , mental illness , psychiatry , economics , archaeology , pathology
Frontier areas (defined as six or fewer persons per square mile) are at the extreme end of the urban‐rural continuum. Whereas they occupy almost half of the land mass of the United States, they constitute only about 2 percent of the population. Exigencies of harsh climate and vast distances make the delivery of health and human services even more difficult than in other rural areas. This paper describes several innovative models for delivering mental health services to the persistently and seriously mentally ill in rural areas.