Patterns of Ambulatory Mental Health Care in Navy Clinics
Published Date: June 1, 2001
The purpose of this paper is to describe ambulatory mental health care in Navy clinics We examined outpatient mental health visits in terms of absolute numbers, focusing on patient characteristics, clinic characteristics, and visit characteristics. We use absolute numbers instead of rates because Navy Medicine does not know definitively for how many beneficiaries it is responsible for providing care. This research provides the membership of Navy Medicine's Mental Health Executive Board with a picture of recent military beneficiary use of mental health services at Navy clinics. This analysis is for use by the Mental Health Executive Board to inform its decisions regarding the Navy's provision of mental and behavioral health services.
