Haas-Wilson, Deborah and Scheffler, Richard and Cheadle, A (1989): Demand for Mental Health Services: An Episode of Treatment Approach. Published in: Southern Economic Journal , Vol. 55, (July 1989)
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the demand for mental health services using data aggregated to the level of episode of treatment or the bundle of mental health services received during a period of continuous contact with the health care system. We estimate a multinomial logit model and provide estimates of the price elasticity of demand for episodes of mental health care by treatment category (inpatient, outpatient, outpatient with prescription drugs) and the price elasticity of demand for outpatient visits within an episode of care.
| Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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| Original Title: | Demand for Mental Health Services: An Episode of Treatment Approach |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | Demand for health care services; price elasticity of demand; episodes of treatment |
| Subjects: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets |
| Item ID: | 19862 |
| Depositing User: | Deborah Haas-Wilson |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2010 01:47 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2019 18:30 |
| References: | Manning, William et al. "Health Insurance and Demand for Medical Care: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment," American Economic Review (June 1987): 251-77. |
| URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/19862 |
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