Mental illnesses represent a wide range of problems and affect people in all age,
socio-economic and ethnic groups. The increasing number of people being treated
for mental illness may be associated with a reduction in a treatment gap, i.e. with
a decrease in a number of people with a mental illness who have no treatment.
Mental health has been at the forefront of political interest over the last two decades,
which might be partly explained by a considerable increase in societal burden
associated with mental illnesses. Nowadays, depression is the leading cause
of disability worldwide.
This book has three main objectives: First, we explain the role of economic evaluation
in mental health care development. Second, we describe foundations and
methods of economic evaluation and investigate how these methods can be applied
specifically in the area of mental health care. Last, this book presents a set of case
studies illustrating the concepts and methods and depicting the state of Czech
mental health care.
The book proceeds in four chapters. The first one briefly introduces the topic of
mental health and its economic aspects. The second chapter considers various
aspects of health care financing: the role of public and private health financing,
reimbursement mechanisms, and strategic planning in mental health policy. This
chapter further presents a case study estimating expenditures on mental health
care in the Czech Republic. The third chapter introduces key concepts of economic
evaluation and illustrates a process ofunit costs calculation by another case study.
Finally, the fourth chapter describes selected quantitative methods of economic
evaluation and presents original Czech examples of their practical use in mental
health care.
| ISBN: | 978-80-87142-38-7 |
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| EAN: | 9788087142387 |
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| Počet stran |
119 stran |
| Vazba |
1 |
| Pořadí vydání |
1. |
| Jazyk |
český |
| Autor: |
Hana Marie Broulíková |
| Autor: |
Martin Dlouhý |
| Autor: |
Petr Winkler |
| Nakladatelství |
Národní ústav duševního zdraví |
| Tématická skupina |
8 - Zdravotnictví |
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