Creating Price Indexes for Measuring Productivity in Mental Health Care

Measuring the need for mental health care.

Measuring Medical Care Productivity

MEASURING productivity is a central challenge in medical care, as it is in all other service indus­ tries. Medical care is particularly important, however, because of the enormous share of gross domestic prod­ uct (GDP) that it takes. The United States spent $2 tril­ lion dollars, or 16 percent of GDP, on health care in 2005 (Catlin, et al. 2007). This compares with a me­ dian of 8.5 percent am...

Online and Official Price Indexes: Measuring Argentina’s Inflation

The first exercise uses a different approach to impute missing values within price series. The method used in the paper is to fill missing prices with the last available price for each product. This approach is reasonable because the gaps in the online data last only a few days. However, official statistical offices deal with missing values in their monthly series in different ways. The standar...

The productivity of mental health care: an instrumental variable approach.

BACKGROUND: Like many other medical technologies and treatments, there is a lack of reliable evidence on treatment effectiveness of mental health care. Increasingly, data from non-experimental settings are being used to study the effect of treatment. However, as in a number of studies using non-experimental data, a simple regression of outcome on treatment shows a puzzling negative and signific...

The Price of Mental Health

tUre f0ne-eighth of the total expendiand \v i e health services for England hetw 's 011 psychiatric patients; by 1 1961 and 1963 these costs rose ~~r^~-4^but stayed in line with N.H.S. increases as a whole. If we look at the proportions of the cost of psychiatric illness borne by different services, that of hospital treatment fell from 84% to 82% in these years, while the share of local authori...