Economic evaluation in the field of mental health: conceptual basis

Objective: Technological advances in medicine have given rise to a dilemma concerning the use of new health technologies in a context of limited financial resources. In the field of psychiatry, health economic evaluation is a recent method that can assist in choosing interventions with different cos...

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Main Authors: Ana Flávia Barros da Silva Lima, Luciane Nascimento Cruz, Carisi Anne Polanczyk, Carlos Renato Moreira Maia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2013-06-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462013000200186&lng=en&tlng=en