Frank R G, Kamlet M S
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1985 Feb;36(2):165-8. doi: 10.1176/ps.36.2.165.
Estimates of direct costs and expenditures for mental health care in 1980 are presented in this analysis. Besides estimates for the specialty mental health sector, the general medical sector, and the human service sector (schools and the criminal justice system), the authors include transportation costs and expenditures for transfer payments. They obtained a low total estimate of $19.2 billion and a high total estimate of $22 billion. Comparisons with previous estimates indicate an annual growth rate in real costs for mental health care of about 1.7 percent since 1971.
本分析给出了1980年心理健康护理的直接成本和支出估算。除了专业心理健康部门、普通医疗部门以及人类服务部门（学校和刑事司法系统）的估算外，作者还纳入了交通成本和转移支付支出。他们得出的较低总估算为192亿美元，较高总估算为220亿美元。与先前估算的比较表明，自1971年以来心理健康护理的实际成本年增长率约为1.7%。
