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.
Department of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, USA. rhsia@sfghed.ucsf.edu
Renee Y
RY
Hsia
Myron L
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Belfer
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