Systems Development of Behavioral Health in Primary Care
摘要
In 1998, two visiting medical school deans and a health-care researcher from Vietnam toured five family medicine training programs in the Philippines and the USA to explore if family medicine training was right for their country. On the last day of this tour, a behavioral health provider and trainer spent the morning with them, giving them a behavioral health overview. Two months later, she made the first of what turned out to be annual or biannual trips to Asia over a 15-year period to assist with training and systems development. Over this time period, this provider and her team worked with schools of medicine, social work, and different levels of health care and government to strategize how to best integrate behavioral health first into family medicine training and clinical care, and second into social work training and service.