Economic Aspects of Mental Health: Key messages to health planners and policy-makers
Overview
This document is aimed at health planners and policy-makers at national or sub-national level who have a responsibility for strengthening, monitoring and evaluating mental health systems. The aims of the document are:
To highlight the need for and relevance of an economic perspective in planning, provid¬ing and evaluating mental health services.
To assist mental health planners and evaluators in understanding and using economic arguments for (a) increasing the allocation of resources for mental health and (b) im¬proving cost-effective utilization of resources to strengthen mental health systems.