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Integrating Behavioral Health: Why? <br />•Addressing mental health and physical problems in a comprehensive, coordinated way, saves lives and improves all patient health outcomes. <br />•Behavioral and social factors contribute to nearly every cause of death, illness and disability and cause approximately half of deaths each year (Journal of the American Medical Association 2004). <br />•> 50% of patients with a mental Health diagnosis are seen by their primary care provider (American Psychological Association). <br />•85% of physician visits are for problems that have a significant psychological component. <br />•45% of individuals who die by suicide have visited their primary care provider within a month of their death and over 75% had contact within one year. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). <br />