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Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2010 Aug;61(8):759–764. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.61.8.759

Table 3.

Patients with a primary diagnosis of mental disorder or substance use disorder before and during the health center initiative

Year	Number of community health centers	Mental disorder			Alcohol use disorder			Drug use disorder
Year	Number of community health centers	N	Difference	Change in N (%)	N	Difference	Change in N (%)	N	Difference	Change in N (%)
Before initiative
2000	730	475,488			41,096			46,569
2001	748	552,489	77,001	16	35,335	−5,761	−14	42,531	−4,038	−9
During initiative^a
2002	843	652,337	99,848	18	40,455	5,120	14	51,346	8,815	21
2003	890	721,613	69,276	11	47,826	7,371	18	53,307	1,961	4
2004	914	979,031	257,418	36	63,496	15,670	33	71,735	18,428	35
2005	952	1,008,874	29,843	3	64,367	871	1	74,560	2,825	4
2006	1,002	1,122,310	113,436	11	71,019	6,652	10	85,709	11,149	15
2007	1,067	1,208,787	86,477	8	69,076	−1,943	−3	79,664	−6,045	−7

For 2002–2007, the mean annual increase in number of patients seen for mental disorders was 109,383 (14%), for alcohol use disorders was 5,624 (12%), and for other substance use disorders was 6,189 (12%).