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Estimated Underserved Population Living in Mental Health Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), as of September, 2008

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 Estimated Underserved Population
United States18.7%
Alabama41.6%
Alaska13.9%
Arizona13.7%
Arkansas46.2%
California9.2%
Colorado9.3%
Connecticut1.9%
Delaware0.0%
District of Columbia13.3%
Florida9.0%
Georgia29.2%
Hawaii4.7%
Idaho62.0%
Illinois21.4%
Indiana15.0%
Iowa38.4%
Kansas35.7%
Kentucky37.5%
Louisiana48.1%
Maine9.5%
Maryland5.7%
Massachusetts0.7%
Michigan13.6%
Minnesota26.6%
Mississippi40.2%
Missouri36.5%
Montana41.9%
Nebraska41.4%
Nevada6.9%
New Hampshire3.7%
New Jersey1.3%
New Mexico44.6%
New York7.2%
North Carolina7.7%
North Dakota34.4%
Ohio14.2%
Oklahoma15.1%
Oregon19.2%
Pennsylvania9.8%
Rhode Island15.6%
South Carolina33.4%
South Dakota49.3%
Tennessee32.3%
Texas19.1%
Utah31.5%
Vermont7.4%
Virginia15.8%
Washington25.1%
West Virginia24.9%
Wisconsin29.9%
Wyoming70.7%
GuamNA
Puerto Rico67.3%
Virgin IslandsNA
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Notes: 

Data as of 9/30/08.

There are 3,059 Mental Health HPSAs with 77 million people living in them. It would take 5,145 practitioners to meet their need for mental health providers (a population to practitioner ratio of 10,000:1).

For further information about HPSAs see the Department of Health and Human Service's HPSA Dictionary.

Sources: 

Office of Shortage Designation, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Special Data Request, April 2009.

2008 population data from Annual Population Estimates by State, July 1, 2008 Population, U.S. Census Bureau; available at http://www.census.gov/popest/states/tables/NST-EST2008-01.xls.

Definitions: 

Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs): HPSAs may be designated as having a shortage of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers. They may be urban or rural areas, population groups or medical or other public facilities.
NA: Data are not available.



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