Closing the mental health treatment gap in South Africa: A review of costs and cost-effectiveness

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue SUPP.1, 2014, Pages

  Jack, Helen ^a   Wagner G , Ryan ^b,c   Petersen, Inge ^d   Thom, Rita ^e   Newton R , Charles ^a,b   Stein, Alan ^a,b   Kahn, Kathleen ^b,c,f   Tollman, Stephen ^b,c,f   Hofman, Karen J ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^f Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Costs and cost analysis; Economics; Health planning; Mental health; Policy; South Africa

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREVALENCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84904396500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23431     Document Type: Article

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