mHealth Intelligence January 16, 2024
A new study reveals that US counties with low densities of mental healthcare resources also have a higher percentage of homes without broadband access.
Though telehealth can help expand mental healthcare access, United States counties where mental health resources are low tend to also lack broadband internet access, hampering telehealth use, according to recent research.
Published in the Nature Mental Health journal, the study aimed to determine the relationship between access to broadband internet and mental health resources and to quantify the association between social determinants of health (SDOH) and broadband access in the United States.
Many Americans do not have access to stable and reliable internet connectivity. Though a 2021 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) report states that fewer than...
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