title: Boom areas: implications for mental health care systems.
abstract: Areas of rapidly shifting population are a perennial phenomenon. Such occurrences offer particular challenges to mental health services. The boom areas which have developed recently in the southwestern rim of the United States have highlighted certain inadequacies in our mental health system. The Houston Consortium, a multi-institutional endeavor, offers one model for addressing these problems. This model emphasizes innovative educational programs geared to local service needs.
mesh_terms: D006281:Health Occupations / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011158:Population Growth; D013781:Texas