How Much Should We Spend on Mental Health?
Kim-Lian Lim, Department of Economics,
Philip Jacobs, Faculty of Medicine,
Carolyn Dewa, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry,
The Institute of Health Economics (IHE),
Available online as PDF file [64p.] at: http://www.ihe.ca/documents/Spending%20on%20Mental%20Health%20Final.pdf
“…..The question of “How much should we spend on mental health?” has been raised in several eminent national and provincial reports on health care. It is a very far-reaching question and so, not surprisingly, has been approached in different ways. In this monograph we present an economic overview of the economic approaches to this question.
We first present an explanation of the different notions of cost, in order to clarify what is being measured. We then present four different approaches that have been used in a variety of contexts to address the issue of government spending – the Benchmark Approach, the Behavioral Approach, the Budgeting Approach and the Economic Evaluation or Cost-Benefit Approach. Finally, we present examples of the use of two of these approaches in the Canadian context. …”
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – What Costs and Expenditures are We Addressing?
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Expenditure and Cost Measures
2.3 Alternative Measures of Economic Burden
2.4 How Much Should We Spend on Mental Health?
Chapter 3 – How Much Do We Spend on Mental Health?
3.1 Introduction .
3.2 Prevalence of Mental Disorders, Substance Use Disorders and Suicide
3.3 Disease Burden
3.4 Estimates of Economic Costs
3.5 Alternative Measures of Economic Burden
3.6 Relative Cost and Expenditure Ratios
Chapter 4 – How Do We Decide How Much to Spend on Mental Health?
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The “Benchmark” Approach .
4.3 The Behavioral Approach
4.4 The Budgeting Approach
4.5 The Economic Evaluation Approach
Chapter 5 – How Much We Should Spend on Mental Health
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The “Benchmark” Approach
5.3 The Budgeting Approach
5.4 Why Do We Need More Mental Health Dollars?
5.5 Assumptions for Estimating How Much More We Need to Spend Using the Budgeting Approach
5.6 A Rough Estimate of How Much More We Need to Spend
5.7 Conclusion
References
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