'People Are Just Isolated': Experts Rethink Mental Healthcare as Stigma and Scarcity of Doctors Impede Access in Rural Big Bend

WCTV

Jun 6, 2024

Highlights a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health services in rural north Florida. Discusses services offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), which reaches rural populations through a variety of free online support groups. Explores additional efforts to increase access to services in rural areas, including the integration of mental health services into primary care and a nonprofit clinic network staffed by psychiatric nurse practitioners.

Access · Behavioral health workforce · County-by-county data · Health workforce supply and demand · Mental health · Stigma · Florida