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Back Geographical variation in civilian and military mental health resource capacity and their effects on mental health readiness of the U.S. military

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Investigator(s) Shen, Yu-Chu
Sponsor Defense Health Agency (DoD)
Summary In order to provide strategic insights into an optimal integrated health care system, our long-term research goals are to identify system level factors in behavioral health care delivery within both the civilian and military health care sectors that can (1) improve overall mental health readiness for the active duty population and (2) reduce waste in the provision of that care. As such, this proposal addresses the following specific aims: (1) develop consistent community-level mental health resource capacity scores for both civilian health care markets (i.e., purchased care) and military treatment facilities (i.e., direct care); (2) identify communities that are at risk of inadequate access to mental and behavioral health care resources and communities with excess (and underutilized) resource capacity, in both the civilian and military sectors; and (3) determine how the mental and behavioral health care utilization rates of individual active duty service members respond to changes in civilian and/or military resource capacity.
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