TABLE 5a. POPULATION OF CATCHMENT AREAS SERVED BY 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, COLOR AND SEX, AND POVERTY STATUS OF CATCHMENT AREA, UNITED STATES 1970 TABLE 5b. ADDITIONS TO 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, COLOR AND SEX, AND POVERTY STATUS OF CATCHMENT AREA, UNITED STATES 1971: NUMBER TABLE 5c. ADDITIONS TO 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, COLOR AND SEX, AND POVERTY STATUS OF CATCHMENT AREA, UNITED STATES 1971: PERCENT DISTRIBUTION BY COLOR AND SEX* * Where percents do not add up to totals shown, discrepancies are due to rounding error. TABLE 5d. ADDITIONS TO 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, COLOR AND SEX, AND POVERTY STATUS OF CATCHMENT AREA, UNITED STATES 1971: ADDITION RATES PER 100,000 POPULATION TABLE 5e. ADDITIONS TO 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, COLOR AND SEX, AND POVERTY STATUS OF CATCHMENT AREA, UNITED STATES 1971: PERCENT DISTRIBUTION BY AGE* * Where percents do not add up to totals shown, discrepancies are due to rounding error TABLE 6. COMPARISON OF PATIENT ADDITIONS BETWEEN ALL AND 69 SELECTED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS BY AGE, UNITED STATES 1971 * 69,011 15,912 16.8 18.9 16.9 19.9 18.0 19.0 11.8 17.4 14.5 13.8 14,880 3,359 3.6 4.0 3.3 3.5 4.1 4.5 2.7 4.0 3.7 3.8 Where percents do not add up to totals shown, discrepancies are due to rounding error - 36. TABLE 7. COMPARISON OF PATIENT ADDITIONS BETWEEN ALL. AND 69 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Statistical NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH SURVEY AND REPORTS SECTION GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ADDITIONS TO FEDERALLY FUNDED COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS DURING 1971 During 1971, there were an estimated 432,640 patient additions to the 295 federally funded community mental health centers in the United States. Over half the additions were females, nearly four-fifths were white, and over 40 percent were under 25 years of age. This Note provides some general data on the population of CMHC 1/ additions and compares this population with the general resident population of the United States. Patient additions represent an unduplicated count of persons admitted to care in community mental health centers. Additions are thus distinguished from admissions, which ordinarily represent duplicated counts and which are more often used in presentations of mental health facility statistics 24 The statistics presented in this Note are derived from the annual Inventory of community mental health centers 3/. Background and Interpretation of Data Differentials in the age, color, sex and diagnostic distributions of persons entering community mental health centers for treatment have been described in other Statistical Notes 4/, and it has been shown that there is considerable local variation among the populations served by individual CMHC's. Local variation depends upon the interaction of many complex forces, among which are: the attractiveness of a particular center and the appropriateness of specific services offered there; the existence and accessibility of alternate mental health facilities in the vicinity of the center; the ability of patients to pay privately for psychiatric care; community and individual definitions of departures from "normal" mental health and degrees of tolerance of such departures; attitudes toward all medical treatment and specifically toward mental health care; and, finally, of course, the actual prevalence and distribution of mental illness in the community. Statistical Note 86 has shown that utilization of community mental health centers also appears to be related to two characteristics of the centers themselves ber of years in operation and whether the center is operated under private or public auspices -- and to two dimensions of the catchment areas in which the centers are located - degree of urbanization and economic status. - - num July 1973 Leona L. Bachrach, Ph.D. |