The overall provider shortage, combined with other unique factors, means rural residents have the odds stacked against them when it comes to seeking mental and behavioral healthcare. But one expert says telehealth can make a big difference.
Rural children and adolescents have rates of mental disorders comparable to metropolitan youth, but face additional barriers to effective delivery of mental health care that are unique to rural areas. These barriers include transportation, communication, laws, and attitudinal issues that affect the ...
There is a lack of access to mental health care in rural areas of the United States. Onepotential strategy for increasing access and improving health outcomes for ruraldwellers is offering hybrid psychiatric care, a combination of in-person and telepsychiatryservices. Although prior research has sho...
To facilitate reform efforts, more research is needed on the current status of mental health services in rural long-term care. Also needed are new tools promoting the targeted use of provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to address the mental health needs of rural long-term care recipi...
Efforts toward health care reform for people with mental illness in rural America must take into consideration the unique characteristics of these areas. Universal coverage, for example, would remove the barriers to accessing care for this population, but would not assure an expansion of services or...
Mental Health Services In Rural America Presents the February 8, 2000 speech by Bernard Arons, Director of the Center for Mental Health Services, delivered to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health in Washington, D.C., on the issue of mental health services in rural A... B Arons ...
the resulting course encourages a contextual approach to user needs, specifically teaching generic mental health care skills to staff who are often working single-handed, and are required to respond appropriately, locally and safely as they work towards achieving National Mental Health crisis standards....
A discussion of a project which has been developed at the School of Nursing & Midwifery at Flinders University in Australia to help improve the delivery of mental health services for older people in rural areas is presented.FullerProfessorJeff...
Rural Canadians face challenges accessing mental health services, and an exodus of psychologists from the public system may make matters worse.
Mental health is a concern in rural areas, as farmers cope with stress and uncertainty due to economic and environmental conditions. Often, there are no mental health providers in the local community. Public health programs can help, but what are the best ways to reach farm populations with th...