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There are three general goals for the plan: 1. Improve the skill of the current behavioral health workforce in primary care, 2. Develop the future primary care behavioral health workforce, 3. Provide support so that primary care practices can evolve their integrated behavioral health programming to take advantage of the developing workforce.

The dramatic increase in the number of individuals in NH with health insurance coincides with a major policy change passed in March 2010, the Affordable Care Act.

The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Policy Team of the New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative has released its first report on health care in New Hampshire, “A Pound of Prevention.

In September 2004, the Endowment for Health convened a group of New Hampshire citizens to assess the growing challenges to New Hampshire’s health care system. Drawn from all areas and sectors of our state, the Citizen Roundtable members represented a broad diversity of experience and opinions about health care quality, how health care is paid for and made available, and how well our health care system is working for our state.