Overview
- A book intended to mental health professionals and researchers
- Comprehensive perspective of methods, instruments, evaluation and costs in mental health services
- Cost-effectiveness evaluation of specific interventions and treatments for mental disorders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Economic Evaluation of Treatment of Mental Disorders
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Health Economics, Burden and Indirect Costs of Mental Disorders
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About this book
The book is divided in four main topics:
1. Introduction to Health Economics applied to Mental Health – this section is an overview of basic principles, concepts and methods used in Economics and Health Economics to enable students to make critical appraisal of Health Economics texts and also to design research studies in this topic. 2. Health Economics applied to the evaluation of quality and costs of Mental Health Services – this section presents results of Brazilian studies on the costs of mental health care (hospital, outpatient care, residential care, informal care), methods on the measurement of costs and it discusses issues related with public policies decisions and quality of mental health car in the low and middle income countries context. There is also an overview of quality indicators of mental health care and instruments to evaluate mental health services and costs.
3. Health Economics applied to evaluate treatment of mental disorders - This section presents a review of cost-effectiveness of pharmacological treatments and other interventions applied for treating the most burdensome mental disorders such as depressive and anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, psychosis, alcohol and drug disorders, dementia, and hyper attention deficit disorders.
4. Health Economics, burden and indirect costs of mental disorders - This section highlights the social and economic burden caused by mental illness under societal perspective focusing on stigma, unemployment, indirect costs in the workplace (absenteeism and presenteeism), the relationship between poverty and mental disorders, global health and social determinants of mental health and on the costs of mental disorders (depression, anxiety, psychosis, alcohol and drug disorders). We present some instrumentsto measure indirect costs of mental disorders.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mental Health Economics
Book Subtitle: The Costs and Benefits of Psychiatric Care
Editors: Denise Razzouk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55266-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55265-1Published: 08 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85611-7Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55266-8Published: 26 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 459
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Public Health, Health Economics