Dealing With The Behavioral Health Difference

“Behavioral health conditions are not uniformly distributed across the population.” It’s a statement that most executives in the field would find unsurprising. And the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted our health care systems’ socially determined disparities in interventions and outcomes—these undoubtedly correspond with disparities in the lived experience of the populations who bear the brunt of these inequalities (see Black & Hispanic Consumers Receive Shorter Duration Of Buprenorphine Treatment For Opioid Use Disorder and Black Children Without I/DD Are 30% Less Likely To Be Identified With Autism Compared With White Children).

Behavioral health conditions vary widely in prevalence . . .