Health Economic Evaluations of Interventions Aimed to Improve Mental Health in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2020) | Viewed by 2565
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Theoretical and empirical health economic evaluations, with a particular focus on the economic evaluation of interventions targeting mental health problems in children and adolescents, and prevention interventions targeting lifestyle choices
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The early onset of mental health problems increases the risk of negative outcomes later in life, including school failure, antisocial and criminal behavior, and alcohol and drug abuse. In contrast to the large number of effectiveness studies, however, only limited studies are available regarding the economic evaluation of early interventions aimed to improve mental health in children and adolescents. More evidence is needed to confirm that mental health interventions in early life can generate substantive positive returns on investment—not just for health, but also in other sectors, such as education, criminal justice, and social welfare.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, “Health Economic Evaluations of Interventions Aimed to Improve Mental Health in Children and Adolescents” offers an opportunity to publish high-quality multidisciplinary research on the cost-effectiveness of all kind of interventions targeting mental health problems in children and adolescents, starting with primary prevention and ending with specialist treatment. We are particularly interested in research estimating the long-term cost-effectiveness of cross-sectorial interventions targeting the early onset of behavioral problems, including systematic literature reviews of the economic evaluations of early intervention.
Dr. Inna Feldman
Collection Editor
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Keywords
- mental health problem
- early interventions
- children and adolescents
- economic evaluation
- cost-effectiveness
