A framework for the economic analysis of child and adolescent mental disorders.
Measuring the burden of disease associated with child and adolescent mental disorders is a challenge. The lack of data on cost and intervention effectiveness has impeded the ability to gain support for expenditures for treatment, training and programme development. A better understanding of economic analysis by researchers, clinicians, and advocates can promote initiatives to gain needed economic data to inform policy and programme development. Based on a critical review of the literature and the development of an economic hypothesis, this paper proposes a specific approach to the economic analysis of the burden of child and adolescent mental disorders utilizing accessible outcome data.
Hsia
Renee Y
RY
Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, USA. rhsia@sfghed.ucsf.edu
Belfer
Myron L
ML
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000191:economics* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016730:Program Development