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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bridging the Gaps Between Screens: Can telehealth bring mental healthcare to those who need it?
Abstract
dc:description.abstractAmid the United States' growing rates of anxiety and depression, an opioid epidemic, and most recently, the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for accessible mental healthcare continues to rise. While virtual care may seem like a simple solution to this access problem, resource, regulatory, and financial barriers can prevent those who most need care from connecting with mental health professionals. Via interviews with mental healthcare providers, public health experts, and patients, this project looks into the potential and limitations of telemental health when it comes to solving the United States' mental healthcare crisis.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2021
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Syed, Nafisa
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Couch, Christina
Rights
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- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright retained by author(s)
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/141892
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/141892