Posted by baseball55 on January 2, 2015, at 20:38:57
In reply to Re: psychiatry is an ougrowth of society, posted by alexandra_k on January 2, 2015, at 14:45:14
There are all those aspects of economics. It depends a lot on who your teacher is.
Generally health care economics would (I expect - this is how I teach it) focus a lot on institutional issues, like who pays, where the spending goes, stuff like that.
But it would surely differ a lot from country to country, since all have different institutional set-ups.
You talk a lot about your experience with public mental health services, which barely exist in the US. There are community mental health clinics in some, but not most, cities and towns. There used to be state-run psychiatric hospitals and they still exist, but have mostly been closed (for example, my state, which used to have dozens, now has only two, one for the "criminally insane").
Health systems and mental health systems vary so much from country to country.I would expect that a class in health care economics would look in detail at these differences. When I teach it, I do a lot of cross-country comparison.
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