... of economic factors in the processes of psychiatric institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation. Alfonso Ceccherini‐Nelli can be contacted at: acn@53hel.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Mental health services Hospital beds Unemployment Time series analysis...

... As a mechanism for understanding how individual economic studies fit into the mental health sector, a conceptual framework of the components of mental health service provision is outlined. Emphasis is placed on, not simply institutional and market resources, but also on the services provided by relatives, self...

...Ruth F.G. Williams; D.P. Doessel It 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...