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Chapter “Rural Behavioral Health Services” presents an overview of the major challenges in the provision of rural and frontier behavioral health services in the United States. It also identifies the most important issues facing rural and frontier behavioral health services delivery in the foreseeable future.
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(Maine (61%), Vermont (61%), West Virginia (51%), Mississippi (50%), Montana (44%), Arkansas (43%), South Dakota (43%), Kentucky (41%), Alabama (40%), and North Dakota (40%).
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Levin, B.L., Hanson, A. (2020). Rural Behavioral Health Services. In: Levin, B.L., Hanson, A. (eds) Foundations of Behavioral Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18435-3_14
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