title: The design of Healthcare for Communities: a study of health care delivery for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health conditions.
abstract: There is a shortage of data to inform policy debates about the quickly changing health care system. This paper describes Healthcare for Communities (HCC), a component of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Tracking Initiative that was designed to fill this gap for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health care. HCC bridges clinical perspectives and economic/policy research approaches, links data at market, service delivery, and individual levels, and features a household survey of nearly 9,600 individuals with an employer follow-back survey. Public use files will be available in late 1999.
authors.affiliation: RAND, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sturm
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gresenz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sherbourne
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Minnium
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klap
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bhattacharya
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Farley
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Burnam
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection; D005582:Foundations; D017048:Health Care Costs; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000379:methods*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007358:Insurance, Psychiatric; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D001523:Mental Disorders; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D014481:United States