COST OF MENTAL ILLNESSEconomists have given little attention to the social construction of illness and how it undergirds cost-of-illness estimates. Social construction captures the prevailing conceptions of normative behaviour. This article focuses on three of the most influential conceptions: the ...
Measuring quality of life in the mentally ill It has been our experience that it is easier to measure quality of life among persons with serious mental illness than it is to intervene to improve it. Th... WS Korr,BC Ford - 《Quality of Life Research》 被引量: 26发表: 2003年 ...
Introduction When the impact of illness is evaluated by indicators like mortality, mental illness has a less significant impact than other illnesses. As a result, the impact of mental disorders was underestimated until the last two decades of the previous century. This perception began to change ...
Costs of neurotic illness in UK general practice in 1985 Psychol Med (1989) R. Jenkins Minor psychiatric morbidity in employed young men and women and its contribution to sickness absence Br J Indust Med (1985) P. Hertzman The economic costs of mental illness in Sweden in 1975 Acta Psychiatr...
Mental illness in young men costs the Australian economy A$387,000 per hour and over nine million working days lost per annum – figures which this report argues cannot be ignored by the business sector. The human and economic costs of mental illness in Australia can no longer be ignored. ...
Mental health is everyone's business. We all have times when we feel down or excited. Most of the time those feelings pass, but sometimes they develop into a more serious problem. It seems that our mental health doesn't always stay the same. It can change as the envi...
Method: Cost of illness in 50 out-patients with schizophrenia was assesse... S Grover,A Avasthi,S Chakrabarti,... - 《Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica》 被引量: 259发表: 2010年 The cost of schizophrenia. In 1988, the management of mental illness in the United States cost an estimated $...
However, the cost-effectiveness of these interventions has not been established. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of a 9-session small-group intervention for women with mental illness recruited from community mental health clinics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We used standard techniques of cost–utility...
Simon Blake, chief executive of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England explains: “Around 1.8 million workers are suffering from work-related illness according to figures from the Health and Safety Executive, with half of this due to poor mental health. That’s equivalent to 900,000 people.”...
Implementing guidelines to standardise methods and study design for cost-of-illness studies would be a worthwhile first step. The advantages and disadvantages... BS Bloom,DJ Bruno,DY Maman,... - 《Pharmacoeconomics》 被引量: 264发表: 2001年 Cost-Outcome Methods for Mental Health "Cost-Outcome...