Costs of mental health services in Czechia: facilitating an evidence-based reform of psychiatric care
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F20%3A43920013" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/20:43920013 - isvavai.cz</a>
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>
Alternative languages
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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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
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)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
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