Health economics of depression / edited by B. Jonsson and J. Rosenbaum.

Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, [1993], ©1993.

viii, 153 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Health economics in the 1990s / M.J. Buxton -- Economics of mental illness : costs, benefits and incentives / B.A. Weisbrod -- Economic studies of the treatment of depressive illness / B. Jönsson and P. Bebbington -- The cost of treatment failure / J.S. McCombs and M.B. Nichol -- The financial implications of starting treatment with a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor of tricyclic antidepressant in drug-naive depressed patients / W.F. Boyer and J.P. Feighner -- Outcomes, costs and design of health insurance for depression / T.G. McGuire -- The economic impact of an educational programme on diagnosis and treatment of depression in Sweden / J. Wålinder, P. Carlsson and W. Rutz -- The challenge of measuring quality of life in psychiatric patients / P. Bech, G.C. Dunbar and M.J. Stoker -- Social aspects of treating depression / D.J. Currie, D.B. Fairweather and I. Hindmarch -- Clinical choices, cost-effectiveness and antidepressant treatments / J.F. Rosenbaum.

Includes bibliographical references and index