Cost-effectiveness index (CEI): a tool to help evaluate mental health programs

Cost-effectiveness and mental health

Does community care work? A model to evaluate the effectiveness of mental health services

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of community Mental Health Departments in Lombardy (Italy), and analyse the eventual differences in outcome produced by different packages of care. The survey was conducted in 2000 on 4,712 patients treated in ten Mental Health Departments. Patients were assessed at least twice in a year with HoNOS (Health of the Nation Outcome Scales). Dat...

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health Interventions: A Critical Review

Background and Aim: Economic evaluation of health interventions by comparing the relevant costs and benefits will result in optimum allocation of resources and increasing the effectiveness of the health system and, through improving equity and increasing accessibility to health services, will lead to increased effectiveness of the health system. The purpose of this study was to critically evalu...

Extended Metrics to Evaluate Cost Effectiveness of Software Inspections

For more than twenty-five years software inspections have been considered an effective and efficient method for software quality improvement [3,4,9]. The goal of inspections is to detect defect before the testing stage begins. According to the data published in the literature, software design inspections save on average 44% of the defect detection costs, and code inspections save on average 39%...

China struggles to rebuild mental health programs.

a dozen workers leapt to their death in the same factory compound in southern China in 2010, while nearly 30 people died and 80 were injured in a spate of school stabbings. Yet, contrary to instinct, there is little evidence to confirm that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental illnesses in China, and strong evidence of a dramatic drop in suicide rates over the past two decades, say...