Main description:

This title was first published in 2001. This original study of mental health care presents a conceptual approach to the nature of the industry's multiple outputs. It pays special attention to the economic role of government, and also uses conventional economic theory to analyze the fact that the needs and wants of people with mental illnesses and their care-givers are frequently neglected.

Contents:

Contents: Introduction;

Economics and mental health care;

Some methodological issues;

The welfare economics of mental health care;

A survey of the economics of mental health care;

The outputs of mental health care: I;

The outputs of mental health care: II;

The role of government in mental health care: a normative analysis;

Mental health care in the household sector;

Multiple inputs: the role of social capital in community-based strategies;

Co-production and community-based services;

Summary and future research;

References;

Indices.