Mental Disorders - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Veterans Affairs Intensive Case Management for older veterans.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: There is a growing need for information on evidence-based practices that may potentially address needs of elderly people with severe mental illness (SMI), and more specifically on community-based services such as assertive community ... Read more...

The REACT study: cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment in north London.

29 Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a key component of mental health care, but recent information on its cost-effectiveness is limited. This article provides a cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment and usual care ... Read more...

[Community-based crisis home programme. Cost-efficient alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.]

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Over recent decades, institutional psychiatric care has shifted its focus from traditional inpatient treatment to a variety of more advanced outpatient services. Within this context, a new "crisis home" programme (CHP) was launched in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Recession stresses mental health system. 2 Aug 2009
• Veterans Affairs Intensive Case Management for older veterans. 30 Jul 2009
• The REACT study: cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment in north London. 29 Jun 2009
• [Community-based crisis home programme. Cost-efficient alternative to psychiatric hospitalization.] 29 Jun 2009
• Relationships between serious psychological distress and the use of health services in the United States: findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 30 May 2009
• Variation in use and costs of primary health and social services in mental health or drinking problems. 30 May 2009
• Cost, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a collaborative mental health care program for people receiving short-term disability benefits for psychiatric disorders. 30 May 2009
• The treatment of challenging behaviour in intellectual disabilities: cost-effectiveness analysis. 19 May 2009
• Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an exposure-based return-to-work programme for patients on sick leave due to common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 11 May 2009
• Disability payments for persons with severe mental illness in Alberta, Canada. 29 Apr 2009
• State mental health policy: mending Missouri's safety net: transforming systems of care by integrating primary and behavioral health care. 29 Apr 2009
• The direct and indirect costs of employee depression, anxiety, and emotional disorders--an employer case study. 29 Apr 2009
• Welfare writes. 29 Apr 2009
• Medicare and mental health parity. 29 Apr 2009
• Drug company-sponsored patient assistance programs: a viable safety net? 29 Apr 2009
• Improving mental health treatments through comparative effectiveness research. 29 Apr 2009
• Dual eligibles with mental disorders and Medicare part D: how are they faring? 29 Apr 2009
• State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• The changing role of the state psychiatric hospital. 29 Apr 2009
• Starvation diet: coping with shrinking budgets in publicly funded mental health services. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97