title: Providing whole-person care: integrating behavioral health into primary care.
abstract: Integrated primary care in a patient-centered medical home is the best way to invite patients to engage in better self-care, to move from provider-based care to team-based care, and to address whole-person needs. However, primary care-whether rural or urban, public or private-cannot become the default mental health system for North Carolinians with severe mental illness.
authors.affiliation: Rural Health Group, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, USA. jan.freeman@rhgnc.org.
authors.forename: Jan Sweet
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009657:North Carolina; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*