Recent developments in the health economic evaluation of mental health services

In this session results of recent studies on the health economic evaluation of psychiatric services will be presented. The foci of the presented papers comprise innovative mental health services as well as new developments in health economic methods. In the first presentation the health economic consequences of a clinical training related to depressive disorders for mental health case-managers employed by a sickness fund will be reported. Results of the study reveal that the course of cost in both groups shows a clear peak around the time of the index event and a decrease thereafter. However, due to the still on…