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CMHS Program Turns Knowledge into Action
This issue summarizes an interview with Mike English, J.D., Director of the CMHS Division of Knowledge Development and Systems Change. Mike explains the Knowledge Development and Application (KDA) program. … Read More
Date: 07/1999
Author(s): Evaluation Center@HSRI
Estimating Treatments Costs For Mental Health Programs
This toolkit is designed for program evaluators and others who wish to understand how unit costs of specific mental health services are estimated, especially where data available to carry out estimations vary in both quantity and quality. Per unit costs are the key to determination of per person expenditures. This toolkit has been developed to offer some practical methods for arriving at unit cost estimates when it is not possible to gain access to the … Read More
Date: 03/1999
Author(s): Barbara Dickey, Ph.D., Jennifer K. Beecham, Ph.D., Eric Latimer, Ph.D., & H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D.
Evidence Supports Medical Cost Offset
This issue reviews the evidence for the potential of mental health services to reduce subsequent utilization and costs of other public services. The topic of this issue seems particularly timely considering the appearance of several articles on cost offset in March/April 1999 issue of Health Affairs. … Read More
Date: 03/1999
Author(s): Evaluation Center@HSRI
Estimating Per Unit Treatment Costs for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs
This toolkit is designed for program evaluators and others who wish to understand how unit costs of specific mental health services are estimated, especially where data available to carry out estimations vary in both quantity and quality. Per unit costs are the key to determination of per person expenditures. This toolkit has been developed to offer some practical methods for arriving at unit cost estimates when it is not possible to gain access to the … Read More
Date: 03/1999
Author(s): Barbara Dickey, Ph.D., Jennifer K. Beecham, Ph.D., Eric Latimer, Ph.D., H. Stephen Leff, Ph.D.
A Tale of Two Networks: Possibilities and Perils for Mental Health Internet Discussion Groups
This paper explores the dynamics of two electronic discussion lists: one established to promote the discussion of mental health outcomes research and evaluation and the other established to discuss the application of evaluation to issues related to mental health and the law. After a year and a half, participants in the former continued to discuss issues according to their original goal. The latter discussion list, on the other hand, had changed from being the more … Read More
Date: 9/1998
Author(s): The Evaluation Center @ HSRI