Estimating Local Prevalence of Mental Health Problems

Steven Stern ()

Virginia Economics Online Papers from University of Virginia, Department of Economics

Abstract: Provision of mental health services is in a state of ?ux as the Patient Protection and A¤ordable Care Act a¤ects provision and cost of medical care and state policymakers grapple with di¢ cult tradeo¤s between budget balance and provi- sion of public medical care. Mental health care provision is actually a relatively small part of the total cost of medical care provision.

Keywords: mental health prevalence; local area estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 C81 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2011-06
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