Primary Care–Mental Health Integration in the VA: Shifting Mental Health Services for Common Mental Illnesses to Primary Care

The Role and Functions of Embedded Behavioral Health Providers in VA Primary Care-Mental Health Integration

a report on the mental health services and the integration of mental health in primary health care system in iran (savojbolagh)

the purpose of the present report is to describe the development of mental health programme in savojbolagh district, 100 km in north west of tehran with the emphasis on the obstacles in expansion of mental health services in other parts of the world and in iran. data on case findings, the number of referrals to mental health centers and other statistics among the rural population of savojbolagh...

Veterans Health Administration primary care-mental health integration initiative.

the efficiency of mental health integration in primary health care: a ten-year study

objectives: this study was conducted on the estimation of the efficiency of mental health program in primary health care in chaharmahal and bakhtyari province, situated in center of the islamic republic of iran, from 1999 to 2009. methods: one of the important objectives of mental health program is screening of mental health disorders and follow up. according to the prescription of mental healt...

Mental health care treatment initiation when mental health services are incorporated into primary care practice.

PURPOSE Most primary care patients with mental health issues are identified or treated in primary care rather than the specialty mental health system. Primary care physicians report that their patients do not have access to needed mental health care. When referrals are made to the specialty behavioral or mental health care system, rates of patients who initiate treatment are low. Collaborative ...