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Costing mental health services.

M Knapp1, J Beecham

  • 1Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Psychological Medicine
|November 1, 1990
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Evaluating mental health services requires understanding costs. This paper outlines rules for empirical cost research to ensure valid policy and practice changes, making cost analysis accessible.

Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • Health Economics
  • Mental Health Policy

Background:

  • Demands for cost information in mental health care arise from policy and political contexts.
  • Understanding the nature and timing of these demands is crucial for effective research.
  • Ignoring costs in mental health policy can lead to questionable validity and limited applicability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the policy and political contexts of cost information demands.
  • To define the nature and phasing of these demands.
  • To establish basic rules for empirical cost research in mental health services.
  • To explore implications for research design, execution, and interpretation.

Main Methods:

  • The paper reviews policy contexts and demand patterns for cost information.

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  • It outlines fundamental principles for conducting empirical cost research.
  • Illustrative studies are used to demonstrate the application of cost analysis.
  • The research emphasizes the importance of adhering to established cost research rules.

    • Main Results:

    • Mental health care changes lacking cost considerations or proper cost research are of dubious validity.
    • Adhering to basic cost research rules is essential for accurate evaluation.
    • Adding a cost dimension to mental health service evaluation is feasible and not overly complex.
    • The literature contains examples of both poor and good cost research.

    Conclusions:

    • Sound mental health policy and practice changes must incorporate valid cost information.
    • Empirical cost research, when conducted correctly, can effectively inform decision-making.
    • The integration of cost analysis enhances the evaluation of mental health services.
    • Further attempts at cost research are encouraged by successful examples in the literature.