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Costs and outcomes management in supported housing
- Authors:
- JARBRINK Krister, HALLAM Angela, KNAPP Martin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 10(1), February 2001, pp.99-198.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Providers of housing engage with a variety of care needs among vulnerable mixed populations. This study aims to examine the relationship between the levels of care and support provided, on the one hand, and tenants' characteristics, needs and living environment, on the other. The costs of providing housing and the costs of services used by tenants independently of their accommodation arrangements are also explored in the context of assessed needs and characteristics.
Mental health promotion and prevention: the economic case
- Authors:
- KNAPP Martin, MCDAID David, PARSONAGE Michael, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Health care systems are designed to improve health and health-related well-being, but are always constrained by the resources available to them. They also need to be aware of the resources available in adjacent systems which can have such an impact on health, such as housing, employment and education. Careful choices therefore have to be made about how to utilise what is available. One immediate consequence is to ask whether investment in the prevention of mental health needs and the promotion of mental wellbeing might represent a good use of available resources. This report identifies and analyses the costs and economic pay-offs of a range of interventions in the area of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention, and to present this information in a way that would most helpfully support NHS and other commissioners in assessing the case for investment.
Private voluntary or public: comparative cost-effectiveness in community mental health care
- Authors:
- KNAPP Martin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 27(1), January 1999, pp.25-41.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Two prominent features of mental health policy in the UK in recent years have been the rundown of hospital provision and the changing of the balance between public and other provider sectors. This article examines the cost, quality of care and outcome implications. Public, voluntary and private providers of mental health care are compared, based on a long-term study of people moving out of psychiatric hospitals in London. Costs are found to be the lowest in the private (for profit) sector, and highest in the NHS and consortium (NHS and voluntary sector partnership) sectors. However, quality of care indicators suggest that the lowest cost sector is performing least well, and the highest cost sectors offer the best quality. These are associated with some differences in user outcome.