- Title
- Economic evaluations of stepped models of care for depression and anxiety and associated implementation strategies: A review of empiric studies.
- Creator
- Reeves, Penny; Szewczyk, Zoe; Proudfoot, Judith; Gale, Nyree; Nicholas, Jennifer; Anderson, Josephine
- Relation
- International Journal of Integrated Care Vol. 19, Issue 2
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.4157
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Since the mid-2000s stepped care, a model of integrated healthcare delivery, has been promoted for offering accessible, effective and efficient services for individuals with mental health conditions. However, adoption of the model has not been widespread warranting additional investment by way of implementation strategies to encourage uptake. These strategies also require funding and their value for money should be assessed to inform decision making and practice. We conducted a review to better understand the extent to which the cost-effectiveness of stepped care has been evaluated (review i) and also to investigate whether economic evaluation has been applied to implementation strategies of stepped care services for anxiety and depression in developed (high income) countries and to chart their methods and outcomes (review ii). The searches were conducted in six electronic databases, grey literature and relevant journals. The search strategies returned two papers for reviews (i) and a single paper for review (ii). Despite stepped care models of integrated mental health service provision being promoted as optimal, there is limited knowledge surrounding the real-world cost-effectiveness of their application and clearly a need for good quality economic evaluations of integrated care that comply with international guidelines of good practice. There is even less information pertaining to the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of strategies designed to increase the uptake of these models.
- Subject
- stepped care; integrated mental health care; economic evaluation; healthcare decision making
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1410471
- Identifier
- uon:36185
- Identifier
- ISSN:1568-4156
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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