Research work · 2020
Health economics for psychiatric epidemiology
Margaret Heslin, Paul McCrone, Daniel Chisholm
Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology
Abstract
This chapter examines the interface between psychiatric epidemiology and health economics, particularly in relation to mental health service planning and evaluation. It describes examples of how economics and epidemiology work together to produce innovative research approaches from basics such as burden of disease and cost-of-illness studies to more complex approaches such as the assessment of mental health system financing and economic evaluation of mental healthcare interventions. It rounds up with a summary of how to conduct economic evaluations, including sections on study design, mode of economic evaluation, and costing perspective.