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The cost of mental health services. Prospects for future research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2014

Juan M. Cabasés
Juan M. Cabasés*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Economia, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Campus de Arrosadia, 31006 Pamplona, Spain
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The setting of priorities in mental health care evaluation requires considering future trends in mental health services. Three areas of change are mentioned in this paper: the development of services, the increase of the burden of illness, and reform processes in health care systems. Economic evaluation of mental health services has to consider the different roles of the agents acting in mental health care, policy-makers, companies, researchers and care professionals, and patients and their relatives.

Despite the increasing work done, most mental health care interventions have either not been evaluated or have been ill evaluated. There is a sense of paucity of measurement that has to be enriched with more and better evaluative research. Some unresolved methodological issues are commented on in this paper. In particular, direct costs outside the health care sector, indirect costs and quality of life measurement are briefly analysed.

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Section C: Evaluating the Costs of Mental Health Services
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Epidemiologia e psichiatria sociale. Monograph Supplement , Volume 6 , Issue S1: Monograph Supplement 1: Making Rational Mental Health Services , April 1997 , pp. 199 - 208
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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