| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 164 pages) : tables. |
| Series |
Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health. Monograph series ; no. 2 |
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Monograph series (Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health) ; no. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151). |
| Summary |
"All of us who are concerned with mental health would like definitive answers to such questions as these: How much does mental illness cost the people of the United States? How much would it cost to provide the highest possible standard of care for the mentally ill? Can we afford these costs? More exactly, which can we better afford--the cost in human misery caused by mental illness or the cost in dollars to provide the best care we know how to give? Could greatly increased expenditures be justified from an economic as well as humanitarian viewpoint? And, of course, the legislators would like to know--where is the money coming from? We asked Rashi Fein, Ph. D., of the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina and formerly staff member of the President's Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, to examine such issues. The essential value of Fein's study is to provide sound methods of computing the costs of mental illness. On this basis, his report should be of lasting value to any branch of federal or state government that would like to know how to develop reliable and meaningful cost figures as an aid to measuring the extent of the mental illness problem and progress toward its solution. Economics of Mental Illness defines both direct costs and indirect costs: (1) Direct costs are actual expenditures for the care of the mentally ill by public and private agencies, by the patients or their families, and by public institutions and private foundations interested in mental health research. (2) Indirect costs are calculated on the basis of the annual loss of production, of annual earnings, and of work years by patients who are hospitalized and could be presumed to be, if they were not hospitalized, gainfully employed in a full-employment period." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Reproduction |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Mental illness.
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Medical economics.
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Medical economics. (OCoLC)fst01014004
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Mental illness. (OCoLC)fst01016547
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Mental Disorders. (DNLM)D001523
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| Indexed Term |
Mental health |
| In: |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Fein, Rashi. Economics of mental illness. New York, Basic Books [1958] (DLC) 58013157 (OCoLC)645818 |
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