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Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and System Strategies is a five-year, $12 million national program with the goal of increasing the use of effective models for treating depression in primary care settings.

The program was developed to address three issues:
  • Depression is a serious and prevalent chronic disease that should be conceptualized in a way that is parallel to other chronic conditions (e.g., asthma, diabetes, etc.).
  • Longitudinal chronic illness care approaches to depression treatment are effective, but not currently implemented by health systems and practitioners.
  • Putting these approaches into place requires a combination of clinical and economic systems strategies at multiple levels, engaging patients/consumers, providers, practices, plans, and purchasers.
The program has three components:
  1. incentives (demonstration project) grants
  2. value research grants
  3. targeted leadership grants


Depression in Primary Care is a national program supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with direction and technical assistance provided by The Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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