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October 30, 2012
Call for Abstracts: 11th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, Mental Health Policy and Economics
Location: Venice, Italy
Conference dates: 22-24 March 2013
Submission Deadline: 30 October 2012
Submissions of Abstracts are being accepted for the 11th Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Mental Health Policy and Economics, Venice, Italy, March 22-24, 2013.
The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics (please visit the Journal at http://www.icmpe.org/ will publish the Abstracts selected for presentation at the 11th Venice Workshop in Vol. 16, Supplement 1, 2013.
Detailed information on the 11th Workshop and on the abstracts submission process is available at: http://www.icmpe.org/test1/events/events.htm
Subject areas
The subject areas (not exhaustive) for the submission of abstracts of original research are listed below.
* Burden of Mental and Addictive Disorders*
- Burden of Illness / Cost of Illness Studies
- Costs of Psychiatric and Medical Comorbidities
- Family and Worksite Consequences
- Labor Market Impacts
Economic Value of Psychiatric Treatments and Services Provision
- Cost-benefit, Cost-effectiveness, and Cost-utility Analysis of:
- Inpatient and Outpatient Services
- New Psychotropic Medications for Mental and Addictive Disorders
- Psychotherapy and Psychological Treatments
- Psychosocial Interventions
- Preventive Services
Financing Psychiatric Services and Treatments
- Analysis of Services for Mental and Addictive Disorders
- Public and Private Financing of Psychiatric Services
- Contractual Arrangements and Financial Risks for Providers and Payers
- Parity in Financing Psychiatric and Medical Services
- Innovative Payment Methods
- Access to psychiatric services and treatments
- Reimbursements of services and pharmaceuticals
- Aging, Epidemiological Transition and Planning ofPsychiatric Services
Financing Psychiatric and Social Services for Special Populations
- Financing Community Psychiatric Services for:
- Severe Mental and Addictive Disorders
- Deinstitutionalization of Long-term Institutionalized Individuals
- Young Severely Ill Patients
- Chronic Psychiatric Patients
- Medically Underserved Populations
- Minorities
- Health and Socioeconomic Disparities
- Peer Support among Subjects with Severe Mental Illness
- Housing
Rationing
- Management of Psychiatric Care
- Rationing Psychiatric Services, Burden on Families and Out-of-Pocket Expenditures
- Formularies
- Cost-Shifting Patterns between Psychiatric and Social Services
Mental Health Policy
- Mental Health Policy Formulation
- Analysis of Mental Health Policy Implementation
- Drug Reimbursement Policy Models
- Mental Health Policies in Different Regions of the World
- “Recovery” Oriented Models
Outcomes Analysis
Clinical Measures: * Diagnosis, Symptoms, Disabilities, Quality of Life * Treatment Side-effects * Disorder-specific and General Health Measures
Social Measures:
- Social Activity Measures
- Productivity Measures
Utility Measures:
- Utility Measures of Disease-specific and General Health States and Disabilities
- Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO)
- Patient Subjective Usefulness and Preferences of Outcomes and Interventions
Ethics and Perspectives
- Need, Demand and Medical Necessity
- Analysis of Perspectives and Behaviors (Patients, Families, Clinicians, Payers, Mental Health Services and Health Technology Providers, Managed Care Companies, Society)
- Moral Hazard
- Involuntary Commitment Policies and Practices
- Civil Rights
Please direct questions regarding this Call for Papers to:
Massimo Moscarelli, MD moscarelli@icmpe.org
Secretariat
International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics ICMPE Via Daniele Crespi 7 20123 Milan Italy
FAX +39-02-5810 6901
E-mail: info@icmpe.org
Website: http://www.icmpe.org/
