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 collective impact coordinator for the Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team.

Latest Reports

2020 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Report - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 
2020 East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - Regional Needs Assessment 
ETCADA
2019 Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team - Behavioral Health Services Report
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2017 Assessment of Smith County Behavioral Health System
Commissioned by the Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team and conducted by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
If Northeast Texas were a state, among states it would rank 47th in chronic lower respiratory disease mortality, 49th in heart disease mortality, 51st in stroke mortality, and 45th in deaths from all causes.

North East Texas Health Status Report 2016

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