Make delays visible
Describe unmet need alongside the burden people experience while waiting for care.
Healthcare access intelligence
Measuring the Hidden Cost of Waiting for Mental Health Care
A multidimensional framework designed to identify and visualize barriers to mental healthcare access.
MHABISCORE
Why MHABI exists
Access is more than a wait time.
Waiting is only part of the picture. MHABI brings clinical burden, daily functioning, acute care use, and safety risk into a shared framework for understanding mental-health access.
Compare population burden
Use a common framework to explore how access barriers differ across populations.
Support research and planning
Structure evidence for validation studies and more informed service planning.
How MHABI works
From indicators to insight
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Collect indicators
Gather measures of delay, disease burden, acute care use, functioning, and safety risk.
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Calculate the index
Combine the five dimensions using the proposed MHABI scoring framework.
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Interpret the burden
Explore patterns of access burden to inform research and service planning.
Dashboard preview
Future MHABI organizational dashboard
Preview how MHABI scores could help organizations monitor access burden, identify higher-risk cohorts, track waitlist pressure, and support data-informed resource planning using de-identified population-level insights.
Research credibility
Built for validation and scientific communication
MHABI is positioned to support publications, conference presentations, posters, validation activities, and future intellectual property documentation.