ETYKA W PSYCHIATRII

ETYKA W PSYCHIATRII - Przeglądy aktów prawnych

Economic Aspects of the Mental Health System: Key Messages To Health Planners and Policy-makers

• „Decisions on how to allocate resources in mental health are complicated by the fact that mental disorders are common, disabling and often long-lasting. Recent epidemiological research has demonstrated the considerable epidemiological burden that mental disorders impose on the world as a whole (more than 10% of lost years of healthy life and over 30% of all years lived with disability; WHO, 2001). The enormity of this disease burden is caused by the relatively high prevalence of mental disorders, the often chronic or recurring nature of these disorders and the severity of disability associated with many mental disorders. Low rates of case recognition and lack of access to effective treatment compound the problem, particularly in poor countries.” (s. 6)

• “For the broader process of priority-settingin mental health, the cost-effectiveness (efficiency) of particular interventions or their combination into service packages needs to be systematically weighed up against (a) other objectives or goals of the mental health system in particular (i) fairness (with respect to equity in geographical or financial access to services), (ii) poverty reduction and (iii) human rights protection - plus (b) the feasibility, acceptability and sustainability of different types of intervention.” (s. 7)