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Are Behavioral Health Providers Located in Areas of Deprivation?

Published: 2022-09-01
Updated: 2023-09-06

Project Description

The distribution of behavioral health providers in high need, yet under-resourced areas is an important indicator of the behavioral health workforce’s ability to address the increasing behavioral health challenges of vulnerable communities. To examine the proportion of the behavioral health workforce co-located in high-need areas, this study analyzed the geographic location of three behavioral health professions across a standardized index of area disadvantage.

Project Publications

Abstract

Policy Brief

Manuscript published in The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research

Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy

Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB# 7590

725 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590

BHWorkforce@unc.edu

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This project is supported by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U81HP46529‐01‐01 Cooperative Agreement for a Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies for $1,121,875. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by SAMHSA, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.