This paper consists of a review of economic evaluations of mental health care. The conclusion which emerges from this review is that the existing literature is lacking in both quantity and quality. Only seven evaluations of both the costs and effects of alternative forms of mental health care...

The main purpose of this paper is to measure the costs of small (i.e. less than 50 beds) NHS units for the care of mentally handicapped persons in the community and to compare these costs with those of hospital care standardising wherever possible for resident characteristics such as age and...

In this paper there is an attempt to demonstrate the relevance of economics to the provision of mental health care and to describe how one technique in the economist’s toolkit should be applied in this field if the objective of policy is to use society’s scarce resources efficiently. The...