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Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S. by Ryan Andrew Brown; David M Adamson; Yashodhara Rana; Lisa Miyashiro; Katherine Pfrommer; Dionne Barnes-Proby; Phoenix Voorhies; Teague Ruder; Harold Alan Pincus; Karen Chan Osilla; Coreen Farris; Joshua Breslau; Grant N Marshall; Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury (U.S.); United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.; Rand Corporation.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Access to Behavioral Health Care for Geographically Remote Service Members and Dependents in the U.S. about?

With many service members now returning to the United States from the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, concern over adequate access to behavioral health care (treatment for mental, behavioral, or addictive disorders) has risen. Yet data remain very sparse regarding how many service members (and their dependents) reside in locations remote from behavioral health providers, as well as the resulting effect on their access to and utilization of care. Little is also known about the effectiveness of existing policies and other efforts to improve access to services among this population. To help fill these gaps, a team of RAND researchers conducted a geospatial analysis using TRICARE and other data, finding that roughly 300,000 military service members and 1 million dependents are geographically distant from behavioral health care, and an analysis of claims data indicated that remoteness is associated with lower use of specialty behavioral health care. A review of existing policies and programs discovered guidelines for access to care, but no systematic monitoring of adherence to those guidelines, limiting their value. RAND researchers recommend implementing a geospatial data por

Author

Ryan Andrew Brown; David M Adamson; Yashodhara Rana; Lisa Miyashiro; Katherine Pfrommer; Dionne Barnes-Proby; Phoenix Voorhies; Teague Ruder; Harold Alan Pincus; Karen Chan Osilla; Coreen Farris; Joshua Breslau; Grant N Marshall; Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury (U.S.); United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.; Rand Corporation.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center

Publisher

RAND Corporation, The

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780833087324

Subjects

Military, Government_military