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An Innovative Approach to Care: Integrating Mental Health Services Through Telemedicine in Rural School-based Health Centers

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Description
Presents a study on the use of telemedicine to provide behavioral healthcare to rural children and adolescents through school-based health centers. Discusses the West Virginia Children's Access Network (WVCAN) and evaluates the successes and shortcomings of both the school-based health center model and telemedicine at providing behavioral healthcare to rural children.
Author(s)
Taniya Pradhan, E. Ashley Six-Workman, Kari-Beth Law
Citation
Psychiatric Services, 70(3), 239-242
Date
2019
Tagged as
Access · Appalachia · Behavioral health · Children and youth · Federally Qualified Health Centers · Health disparities · Statistics and data · Telehealth · West Virginia