Interdepdence Of Community Mental Health Care Providers In An Urban County: A Spatial Panel Approach

<p>This dissertation empirically investigates mental health care expenditures between community mental health care providers, using a spatial panel data model. Specifically, it explores the spatial interdependency in the publicly funded mental health care system of Detroit-Wayne County with a spatial dynamic panel data model with individual effects and other controls. A transformation approach is applied to ensure consistency of the estimates. Results support some degree of interdependence between neighboring sites/clinics and time dynamics in terms of their gross revenue. The study also provides other implications like significance of mental health managed care and Medicaid expansion. As the first study to consider this feature of the mental health care system, the results provide theoretical insights to policy makers.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Year dc:date.available

2014

Author dc:creator

• Wu, Lizi

Contributors dc:contributor

• Allen C. Goodman
• Xu Lin

• community mental health care
• Dynamics
• Spatial interdependence
• Transformation approach
• Economics

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/941

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1940