2019 Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team - Behavioral Health Services Report

Behavioral Healthcare

Healthcare Needs Assessment

Poverty generates poor health and poor health generates poverty.
In every aspect of healthcare from being sick to getting care, from prevention to aftercare, people in poverty don’t fare as well as people in middle class or wealth.
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The top three needs in behavioral healthcare for all respondents were:
  1. Treatment for Anxiety
  2. Treatment for Depression
  3. Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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The table below shows the Key Poverty Indicators and Top Needs only for those respondents who have no healthcare coverage.
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​ETHNN is the Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team Coordinator.

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