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dc.contributor.authorF.G. Williams, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorDoessel, D.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T17:00:38Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T17:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.date.modified2009-12-11T06:46:08Z
dc.identifier.issn03068293
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/03068290310487559
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27380
dc.description.abstractIt is usually unnecessary to define the output of an industry, but this is not the case with mental health services. Following Grossman's conception of health capital, the outputs of mental health care enter a household production function as a commodity vector. Considering the multiple and heterogeneous nature of the services of this industry, preferences exist in multi-dimensional space. An application of the characteristics theory of consumer demand associated with Ironmonger and Lancaster illustrates the outputs in terms of two characteristics, viz. symptom alleviation and disability reduction. Representing preferences by indifference curves, in the usual way, clarifies the relationship between mental health care inputs and the outputs of mental health care. The theoretical problem in the economics of mental health care of whether, or how, individual preferences can count is also addressed. It is shown on an indifference map what it means when society institutionalises some individuals. This approach also enables the deinstitutionalisation movement to be placed into an economic context. It is noted that empirical work on goods and services that have multiple characteristics involves the application of hedonic price analysis, a technique already applied in the economic literature on mental health.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEmerald Group Publishing Limited
dc.publisher.placeBradford, England
dc.publisher.urihttp://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=ijse
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1000
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1033
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Social Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume30
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1499
dc.titleThe multiple dimensions of mental health services: a conceptual framework
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2003
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDoessel, Darrel P.


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