Assessing Primary Care Contributions to Behavioral Health: A Cross-sectional Study Using Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
Anuradha JettyStephen PettersonJohn M WestfallYalda JabbarpourPublished in: Journal of primary care & community health (2021)
Primary care physicians provided most of the care for depression, anxiety, and AMI. Almost a third of the care for SMI and a quarter of the SMI prescriptions occurred in primary care settings. Our study underscores the importance of supporting access to primary care given primary care physicians' critical role in combating the COVID-19 related rise in mental health burden.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- healthcare
- mental health
- general practice
- sars cov
- public health
- cross sectional
- pain management
- health information
- climate change
- risk assessment
- acute coronary syndrome
- chronic pain
- mental illness
- drug induced
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- social media
- coronary artery disease
- left ventricular
- percutaneous coronary intervention