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New reports reveals billions in cost of schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32876
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , alliance , psychiatry , psychosis , action (physics) , indirect costs , environmental health , health care , business , medicine , gerontology , psychology , economic growth , geography , economics , physics , accounting , archaeology , quantum mechanics
The direct and indirect costs of caring for the estimated 2.65 million people living with schizophrenia in the United States is a whopping estimated $281.6 billion in 2020, with a significant amount of the cost due to health care, incarceration, supportive housing and homelessness. The new report was released July 14 by the Schizophrenia & Psychosis Action Alliance (S&PAA).