Where our nation's mental health is concerned, disparity, not parity, rules. Mental Health America released a new report today. It's entitled Parity or Disparity: The State of Mental Health in America, 2015 . The report offers the first cumulative ranking of mental health status and access to services for all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Source: Data from www.mhascreening.org The report includes measures of mental health status and access for adults and children, drawn from national databases that are regularly updated. Altogether, they paint a very interesting picture of how states measure up to one another in protecting the mental health of their people. The best states for your mental health? Massachusetts leads the list, followed by Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Delaware. Rounding out the top ten are Minnesota, Maryland, New Jersey, South Dakota, and Nebraska. There are traditionally liberal and traditionally conservative states in the to
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