Impact of Mental Health Insurance Legislation on Mental Health Treatment in a Longitudinal Sample of Adolescents

Conclusions: Prolonged exposure to comprehensive mental health laws across a person’s childhood and adolescence may reduce the demand for mental health visitations in adulthood, hence, reducing the burden on the payors and consumers. Further, as the exposure to the mental health law strengthened, the gap between at-risk subgroups was narrowed or eliminated at the highest policy exposure levels.
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