What do you mean by Underserved?

Geographically, socioeconomically, socially, and generationally, there is an imbalance between the need and the availability of mental health services. 

Underserved populations include:

People living in remote and rural areas (Health Professional  Shortage Areas--HPSA--and Medically Underserved Areas),

People living in poverty,

People living in high-crime areas,

People living with physical disabilities (blind, hearing impaired, mobility bound, developmentally delayed, elderly, hospice, assisted living, nursing home, hospital bound, and the infirmed),

People living with debilitating mental illnesses that limit movement in the general population (social phobia, panic disorder with and without agoraphobia, schizophrenia, delusional disorder, shut-ins, hoarders, schizoid personality disorder),

People with certain mindsets and attitudes (people who would never seek mental health services out of a lack of knowledge of what the profession has to offer and those who would feel too embarrassed to seek treatment, i.e., those from generations who were brought up to believe that depression is a character flaw and not a medical condition that is treatable),

People "too busy" to seek and maintain mental health services (Business and Government Leaders, Teachers, College Professors, members of Law Enforcement, Attorneys, Judges, Doctors, Nurses, Accountants, Psychiatrists and Psychologists, Counselors and Therapists),

People in the "Public Eye" who would risk "bad press" if they were seen or photographed walking into a Psychiatrist's Office (Politicians, Legislators, CEOs, Executives, those in the Entertainment Industry or Media, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Mental Health Workers, Clergy, Attorneys, Judges, and those in Law Enforcement), and

Professionals who serve others in disaster areas (for example: Health-Care Workers who provide care to people in need after disasters such as hurricane Katrina, the earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand and Chile and Japan, the tsunami in Indonesia and Japan, and workers for organizations and agencies such as Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross).

Those giving help need help too, and Telemental Health is the best way to meet them where they are: in the field.

Link to Global Incident Map