Health economics in mental health. 2: Economic evaluation

The Economics of Mental Health

Socio-Economic Inequality and Mental Health in Tehran, Iran

  Background and Objectives: Understanding and analyzing the socio-economic factors affecting mental health is important for mental health policy-making in metropolitan areas. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between socio-economic factors and mental health of households living in Tehran.   Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 6...

Economic evaluation in the field of mental health: conceptual basis.

OBJECTIVE Technological advances in medicine have given rise to a dilemma concerning the use of new health technologies in a context of limited financial resources. In the field of psychiatry, health economic evaluation is a recent method that can assist in choosing interventions with different cost and/or effectiveness for specific populations or conditions. This article introduces clinicians ...

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

economic crisis on mental health

The character Gordon Gecko in the film “Wall Street” lived by the mantra “Greed is Good.” The events that unfolded toward the end of 2008 exposed in dramatic fashion the downside to greed and led to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Economic contagion in the US spread rapidly as many countries experienced failures in key businesses, declines in consumer w...