Improving Behavioral Health Care in the Military Health System: Challenges, Promising Strategies, and Research Directions

Abstract

Ensuring that service members have timely access to high-quality behavioral health (BH) care is a priority for the U.S. Department of Defense and essential to ensuring the health and readiness of the force. The Military Health System (MHS) provides health care to servicemembers, their dependents, and military retirees, and the Defense Health Agency oversees health care delivery. To support the MHS in its mission, we highlight opportunities to improve the quality, access, and equity of BH care delivery: increasing access to BH care, ensuring the effective integration of virtual BH care, focusing on the quality of BH care delivered by private-sector providers, and prioritizing racial and ethnic equity in BH care.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2023
Accession Number
AD1214894

Entities

People

  • Carol P. Roth
  • Jessica L. Sousa
  • Kimberly A Hepner
  • Nabeel Qureshi

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • African Americans
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Covid-19
  • Delivery Of Health Care
  • Depression
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Minority Groups
  • National Security
  • Psychiatry
  • Public Health
  • Therapy
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Medical or Health Care Field.