Mental Health Service Use in the Community and Schools: Results from the Four-Community MECA Study
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 July 1996Open access
Philip J. Leaf, Margarita Alegrı́a, Patricia Cohen, Sherryl H. Goodman, Sarah McCue Horwitz, Christina W. Hoven
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Community surveys show great promise for monitoring the need for mental health and substance abuse services and for identifying patterns of use that varied in the four communities surveyed.
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Community surveys show great promise for monitoring the need for mental health and substance abuse services and for identifying patterns of use.
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