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- Title
Medida de la calidad de vida en el análisis económico de la atención a la salud mental.
- Authors
Ayuso-Mateos, J. L.; Salvador-Carulla, L.; Chisholm, D.
- Abstract
Quality of life measurement is a key element health economics and healthcare planning, particularly chronic diseases associated to high morbidity and disability (i.e., mental disorders). This paper provides a critical review on the theoretical background of utility, on methods for developing measures based on health preferences or values, and the composite indexes derived from them (DALY and QALY). Then the practical use in mental health is revised both in burden of disease studies and cost-utility analysis. There is an important requirement on the part of mental health researchers and policy makers alike to pay close attention to the underlying methods and construction of utility-based estimates of health outcome.
- Subjects
QUALITY of life; MEDICAL economics; MEDICAL care; CHRONIC diseases; MENTAL illness; MENTAL health
- Publication
Actas Espanolas de Psiquiatria, 2006, Vol 34, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1139-9287
- Publication type
Article