Costs of mental health services in Czechia: facilitating an evidence-based reform of psychiatric care

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11110/20:10409959 RIV/61384399:31140/20:00053920

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40258-019-00501-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40258-019-00501-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40258-019-00501-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s40258-019-00501-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Costs of mental health services in Czechia: facilitating an evidence-based reform of psychiatric care

Original language description

Information about unit costs of psychiatric care is largely unavailable in Central and Eastern Europe, which poses an obstacle to economic evaluations as well as evidence-based development of the care in the region. The objective of this study was to calculate the unit costs of inpatient and community mental health services in Czechia and to assess the current practices of data collection by mental healthcare providers. We used bottom-up microcosting to calculate unit costs from detailed longitudinal accounts and records kept by three psychiatric hospitals and three community mental health providers. An inpatient day in a psychiatric hospital costs 1504 Czech koruna (CZK; €59), out of which 75% is consumed by hotel services and the rest by medication and therapies. The costed inpatient therapies include individual therapies provided by a psychiatrist or psychologist, consultations with a social worker, group therapies, organised cultural activities and training activities. As regards the community setting, we costed daycare social facilities, case management services, sheltered housing, supported housing, crisis help, social therapeutic workshops, individual placement and support, and self-help groups. The unit costs enable assigning financial value to individual items monitored by the Czech version of the Client Service Receipt Inventory, and thus estimation of costs associated with treatment of mental health problems. The employed methodology might serve as a guideline for the providers to improve data collection and to calculate costs of services themselves, with this information likely becoming more crucial for payers in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1611" target="_blank" >LO1611: Sustainability for The National Institute of Mental Health</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

ISSN

1175-5652

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

287-298

UT code for WoS article

000520847500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85069704578