Article Excerpt: According to the World Health Organization, there are about 11 mental health providers of any kind per 100,000 people globally.
Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor at Dartmouth College, says in ‘high resource’ areas like the United States, the numbers don’t look much better. “It’s about 35 providers per 100,000 people,” he explains.
Jacobson, who leads Dartmouth’s Aim High Laboratory for technology-guided healthcare, has been working on what’s called ‘scalable interventions’ for quite some time. “Digital technologies are one of the ways that folks have tried to enable better access to healthcare.”
That’s where Therabot comes in – an generative AI mental health chatbot created by Jacobson and his colleague, Dr. Michael Heinz.
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