McDaid, David 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0744-2664 and Park, A-La ORCID: 0000-0002-4704-4874
(2015)
Counting all the costs: the economic impacts of poor physical health in people with mental health problems.
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International Diabetes Federation, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract
People with severe mental health problems such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression are at increased risk of a range of chronic physical health problems. Poor concordance with treatment and underutilisation of physical health services may be contributory factors. Co-morbid physical health problems not only have health but substantial economic impacts, in terms of increased health care expenditure and other costs such as subsequent impacts on absenteeism from work and premature mortality. Given the high economic costs of comorbidity, effective prevention and early interventions and better integration/collaboration between physical and mental health services to address physical health problems have the potential to be cost effective and need to be evaluated.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.idf.org |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Social Policy Care Policy and Evaluation Centre |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Apr 2015 15:56 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 06:03 |
| Funders: | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/61334 |
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