title: [Medico-socio-economic aspects of mental health: impact of anxiety disorders].
abstract: Budgetary control policies implemented in order to cope with the increase in health costs in industrialised countries, all along with the inbalance of the national health insurance accounts, give rise to the problem of preserving the quality of care and quality of life of the patients. This is particularly true for the treatment of psychiatric diseases, and especially anxiety. Early optimal treatment, of adequate duration, of the anxiety disorders might be the most economic attitude in the management of this pathology. On the other hand, the impact of the treatment of anxiety on the quality of life of the patient has a direct effect on costs if one considers the supplement to medical consumption and the social deficit induced by therapeutic failure in particular anxiety disorders. It remains that the evaluation of the health economics of anxiety is difficult, because of the complexity of the parameters involved.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D004180:Direct Service Costs; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008603:Mental Health; D011634:Public Health; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D012917:Social Adjustment; D016896:Treatment Outcome