TRICARE and Mental Health: Providing the Benefit

Abstract

(Navy medicine has identified mental health as one of the major product areas in which it wants to develop a business strategy that supports the effective and efficient provision of these services to the military health system's beneficiaries. To develop this strategy, the Navy Bureau of Medicine has established a mental health product line executive panel. It's members include both medical and non-medical Navy and Marine Corps personnel, reflecting the Navy's diverse mental/behavioral health resources. Among the many tasks facing the panel is establishing a comprehensive baseline understanding of mental/behavioral health care services as they currently exist in the Navy and Marine Corps communities. Our purpose in this document is to provide an overview of the regional TRlCARE mental health care delivery systems and to identify issues requiring further investigation, thought, and analysis during the course of the executive panel's proceedings. This annotated briefing represents the first in a series of research document that we will be preparing for the working group during the next several months.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA401040

Entities

People

  • Michelle Dolfini-reed
  • Susan Schutte

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Health
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Therapy

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Library and Information Science
  • Medical or Health Care Field.