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Health economics in mental health. 1: Principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Neil Craig  and
Cameron Stark
Neil Craig*
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, University of Glasgow, 2 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ
Cameron Stark
Affiliation:
Health Medicine, Highland Health Board, Beechwood Park, Inverness IV2 3HG
*
∗ Correspondence
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This is the first of two papers which summarise key concepts in health economics and explains the differences in the various types of economic evaluation published in the economics literature. Examples from the economic analysis of mental health care are used to illustrate the key points. This paper explains the concepts of scarcity, rationing, opportunity cost and efficiency from a health economics perspective, and presents an ethical argument for the use of health economics in making decisions on resource use in mental health care.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 11 , November 1997 , pp. 684 - 686
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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