TY - JOUR
KW - African Continental Ancestry Group/psychology
KW - Alabama
KW - Community Mental Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration
KW - Healthcare Disparities
KW - Humans
KW - Mental Disorders/diagnosis/psychology/therapy
KW - Mental Health
KW - Pilot Projects
KW - Primary Health Care/methods/organization & administration
KW - Program Evaluation
KW - Qualitative Research
KW - Quality of Life
KW - Rural Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Stereotyping
KW - Telemedicine/organization & administration
KW - Videoconferencing
AU - R. M. Savage
AU - J. M. Dillon
AU - J. C. Hammel
AU - T. C. Lewis
AU - N. C. Johnson
AU - L. M. Barlow
AU - M. M. Brooms
AU - P. M. Moore
AU - H. E. Parker
AU - K. Z. Rodney
A1 - 
AB - The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black was a demonstration of concept project. This paper is a descriptive and qualitative overview of this 2.5 year project. Limited key project results are reported here. Located in the rural Black Belt region of Alabama this coalition had several key aims: to develop a collaboration between primary care and mental health care through co-location of services; use of video-conferencing capability to provide mental health services more efficiently; enhanced training in rural healthcare; and development of stigma reduction campaigns along with other coalition partner specific initiatives. Co-location and telepsychiatry implementation produced the major challenges and resulting adaptations to original aims. Despite many challenges these new service patterns were put into place and appear to be sustainable.
BT - Community mental health journal
C5 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth; Healthcare Disparities
CP - 1
CY - United States
DO - 10.1007/s10597-012-9488-z
IS - 1
JF - Community mental health journal
N2 - The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black was a demonstration of concept project. This paper is a descriptive and qualitative overview of this 2.5 year project. Limited key project results are reported here. Located in the rural Black Belt region of Alabama this coalition had several key aims: to develop a collaboration between primary care and mental health care through co-location of services; use of video-conferencing capability to provide mental health services more efficiently; enhanced training in rural healthcare; and development of stigma reduction campaigns along with other coalition partner specific initiatives. Co-location and telepsychiatry implementation produced the major challenges and resulting adaptations to original aims. Despite many challenges these new service patterns were put into place and appear to be sustainable.
PP - United States
PY - 2013
SN - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
SP - 79
EP - 85
EP - 
T1 - The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black belt: a proof of concept project
T2 - Community mental health journal
TI - The Alabama Coalition for a Healthier Black belt: a proof of concept project
U1 - Education & Workforce; HIT & Telehealth; Healthcare Disparities
U2 - 22302212
U3 - 10.1007/s10597-012-9488-z
VL - 49
VO - 1573-2789; 0010-3853
Y1 - 2013
ER -