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How Mental Illness Loses Out in the NHS A report by The Centre for Economic Performance's Mental Health Policy Group
Layard, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
-effective treatments, it receives only 13% of NHS health expenditure. The under-treatment of people with crippling mental illnesses is the … matter of simple economics - the net cost to the NHS would be very small. When everyone praises early intervention, it is …
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The Effect of CSB Services on Hospitalization Rates
Wanchek, Tanya - Center for Economic and Policy Studies (CEPS), Weldon … - 2009
In Virginia, Community Service Boards (CSBs) serve as a single point of entry into publicly funded mental health, mental retardation, and substance abuse services. CSBs are part of a move toward an integrated system of care, which focuses on establishing community services and making more...
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Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress
Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...
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Does state spending on mental health lower suicide rates?
Ross, Justin M.; Yakovlev, Pavel A.; Carson, Fatima - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 4, pp. 408-417
Using recently released data on public mental health expenditures by U.S. states from 1997 to 2005, this study is the first to examine the effect of state mental health spending on suicide rates. We find the effect of per capita public mental health expenditures on the suicide rate to be...
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Make time for physical activity or you may spend more time sick!
Lordan, G.; Pakrashi, D. - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2013
This work estimates the association between various types of physical activities and physical health, mental health and health service utilization. Specifically, we consider participation in housework, manual, walking, sports/exercise and total physical activities to a moderate level. We view...
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Are fruit and vegetables good for our mental and physical health? Panel data evidence from Australia
Mujcic, Redzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of fruit and vegetable consumption on human well-being. Using individual-level panel data … statistically significant impacts on a wide range of subjective well-being measures, including life satisfaction, self …. For most well-being measures, the optimal consumption bundle consists of 4-5 daily portions of fruit and 4-5 daily …
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Capturing Value from Health Technologies in Lean Times
Blomqvist, Ake; Busby, Colin; Husereau, Don - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2013) 396
The adoption of new health technologies brings potential improvements to quality of life as well as new costs for provincial healthcare systems. An appropriate evidence-based framework for adoption decisions therefore can go a long way to improving value for money in our health systems. While...
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Optimal Health and Retirement Policies amid Population Aging
Hostenkamp, Gisela; Stolpe, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
This paper develops a simple analytical framework in which optimal health and retirement policies amid population aging can be discussed. To be efficient, these policies must recognize and exploit the dynamic complementarities between the timing of retirement, the size of lifecycle labour income...
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Paying Hospital-Based Doctors: Fee for Whose Service?
Blomqvist, Ake - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2013) 392
Canadian specialist doctors are paid mainly through fee-for-service for the procedures they perform. Nationwide, more than 80 percent of surgical specialists’ income comes from fee-for-service payments that are negotiated collectively with provincial health ministries. Surgical specialists...
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Improving the Performance of the Public Health Care System in Greece
Economou, Charalampos; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health, including informal payments, while public health spending...
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