Inpatient admissions to specialty mental health organizations: Forecasts 1990 to 2010

Abstract

This paper projects inpatient admissions to specialty mental health organizations for white, nonwhite, and black persons in five year intervals between 1990 and 2010. The authors suggest that it is reasonable to expect significant increases in the number of white, nonwhite, and black inpatient admissions to all specialty mental health organizations, except state and county mental hospitals, during the next 20 years. Among the different specialty mental health organizations, non-federal general hospitals are expected to have the largest increases, and state and county mental hospitals, the smallest.