Offering more behavioral health services in primary care practices would help address lack of access to care. Eight of the country's leading physician organizations recently issued a call-to-action ...

Hospital-led Solutions to a Growing Crisis report outlines five hospital case studies showing how systems are integrating ...

On September 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration outlining how HHS plans to advance President Biden’s national ...

Biden identified the country's worsening mental health crisis as a top national priority during his State of the Union address this year. Nearly 53 million Americans in 2020 were affected by mental ...

It may seem like there is an unending sea of mental health-focused startups in the digital health world, but the ones that make themselves stand out are still doing a fine job of securing capital.

This is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Medicare and Medicaid Integration. The featured topic includes analysis, proposals, and commentary that will inform policies on the ...

Integrating behavioral health care with primary care improves pediatric outcomes, reducing PSC-17 scores, especially with behavioral health clinician encounters and psychotropic prescriptions.

There is an inextricable and well-documented connection between physical health and behavioral health. Behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and drug abuse, eating low-nutrition foods, lack of exercise, ...

Experts explore a virtual collaborative care model to enhance mental health support for breast cancer patients, aiming to ...

The researchers found that 57.5% of children with psychosocial symptoms saw improvement as a result of either meeting with a behavioral health clinician or receiving a psychotropic prescription.

Read more in the PNW Health series. About half of all people are diagnosed with a mental health issue at some point in life, primarily anxiety and major depression. Meanwhile, nearly one-third of ...

Behavioral health practices focus on the ways that your thoughts and emotions influence your behavior. “Behavioral health” is a term for a wide-reaching field that looks at mental health, lifestyle, ...