McKinsey's Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare investigates the impact of COVID-19 on rural communities, particularly people of color, examining four factors contributing to the challenge, and offers tactical actions to address these rural healthcare disparities.
The Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare examines how actions to address behavioral health challenges could be coupled with efforts to expand equitable access and investment in Behavioral Health at parity with other health conditions.
One in five adults experiences mental illness in the United States each year. Mental illness can negatively impact physical health and/or reduce an individual’s ability to live their daily life as they otherwise would.
Approximately 20 million adults in the United States have a substance use disorder. Substance use often co-occurs with mental illness – close to half of adults with a substance use disorder also experience a mental illness at the same time.
Approximately 40 percent of health status can be attributed to underlying factors such as income, employment, education, food, housing, transportation, social support, and safety. See how these factors vary across the United States.
One in six Americans live in a rural area. Rural Americans are more likely to have underlying health conditions and lower access to care than urban Americans. Explore health disparities in rural America.
Over the past few years the number of births and general fertility rates have been steadily decreasing in the United States. Explore how birth rates currently vary across states in women aged 15 to 50 years old.
This tool was created by the McKinsey's Center for Societal Benefit through Healthcare in partnership with our Healthcare Innovation Domain and our Medicaid and State Health and Human Services Domain. Improving healthcare has long been a central part of the mission of McKinsey's Healthcare Systems & Services Practice. We have honored that mission by serving our clients effectively and investing in issues deeply relevant to society, such as social determinants of health, rural health, maternal health, and behavioral health - including mental health, substance use, and the opioid crisis.