Economic Evaluation of Mental Health Interventions: A Guide to Costing Approaches.

摘要: Costing approaches in the economic evaluation of mental health interventions are complicated by broad societal impacts health, and multidisciplinary nature interventions. This paper aims to provide a practical guide costing across wide range care inputs illness consequences relevant treatment health. The resources needed deliver highly variable depend on settings (institutional, community), providers (medical, non-medical) formats (individual, group, electronic). Establishing most appropriate perspective is crucial when assessing costs associated with particular problem or evaluating treat them. We identify five key cost categories (social care, informal production losses, crime education) impacted discuss contemporary issues resource use measurement valuation, including data sources instruments.