Community Health Profile: State of Behavioral Health in Philadelphia 2018
Indicators provide information about behavioral health in the city as a whole and among specific subpopulations.
Data Brief
March 2018
View the brief: Community Health Profile: State of Behavioral Health in Philadelphia 2018 [PDF]
As part of the evaluation of Philadelphia Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), a public education program teaching the skills needed to identify, understand, and respond to signs of behavioral health challenges or crises, the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health tracked available city-wide behavioral health indicators over time.
In partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), UHC researchers identified indicators that 1) provide information about behavioral health in the city as a whole, among specific subpopulations, and/or in different neighborhoods; 2) have the potential to demonstrate change over time (especially in response to population-based interventions like MHFA); and 3) are feasible to collect on a regular and ongoing basis.
This brief highlights eleven behavioral health indicators from seven different sources. Data for this report were the most recent available at the time, mostly from 2015 or 2016. In this report we divided our findings into two categories reflecting behavioral health conditions/symptoms first, followed by information on service utilization and provision.
Read the full brief Community Health Profile: State of Behavioral Health in Philadelphia 2018 [PDF] to review key findings on the following categories:
- Adult Self-Rated Mental Health
- School Youth in Philadelphia
- Substance Abuse
- Suicide and Crisis Response Center Use
- Behavioral Health Services Utilization
- Mental Health First Aid
Citation:
Carroll-Scott A, Lê-Scherban F, Kelly MK, Verdecias N, Weckesser S. Current State of Behavioral Health in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA: Drexel University Urban Health Collaborative; March 2018