Untapped Potential: Local Health Departments’ Involvement in Behavioral Health Preparedness Planning and Recovery through a Population Behavioral Health Framework
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Untapped Potential: Local Health Departments’ Involvement in Behavioral Health Preparedness Planning and Recovery through a Population Behavioral Health Framework

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  • Alternative Title:
    J Public Health Manag Pract
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    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an increased demand for behavioral health services in an already strained public health system. Thus, there is a critical need to shift to a population behavioral health framework to address the scope and magnitude of the behavioral health crisis. Local health departments (LHDs) are positioned and purposed to assist in this work by implementing behavioral health surveillance, prevention, and early intervention strategies. Two surveys conducted by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) were used for this analysis, the 2018 | survey and the 2020 | survey. In 2018, a little over half of LHDs involved behavioral health groups in their planning coalitions, and three-quarters of LHDs addressed behavioral health in preparedness planning. However, in 2020, LHDs implementing a behavioral health response during COVID-19 was substantially lower than the planning phases: strategy to support the public health system, including behavioral health (20%); specific initiative for individuals with behavioral health needs (48%); or targeted messaging for people with behavioral health needs (25%). The findings of this analysis indicate that as of 2020, LHDs’ involvement in behavioral health is still minimal and the potential for LHDs to reduce burden on the public health system is not being maximized. For LHDs to provide more behavioral health services they will require support in the form of funds, technical assistance, education on best practices, and the support and authority to expand services in behavioral health.
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    J Public Health Manag Pract. 28(2):210-213
  • Pubmed ID:
    35100221
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC8852818
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    NU38OT000306/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
  • Volume:
    28
  • Issue:
    2
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