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The Productivity Commission Inquiry Report into Mental Health — A Commentary from a Health Economics Perspective
Author(s) -
Mihalopoulos Cathrine,
Lee Yong Yi,
Engel Lidia,
Le Long KhanhDao,
Tan Eng Joo,
Chatterton Mary Lou
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8462.12412
Subject(s) - mental health , productivity , commission , government (linguistics) , perspective (graphical) , psychology , process (computing) , public economics , business , public relations , medicine , political science , economic growth , psychiatry , economics , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , finance , artificial intelligence , operating system
The Productivity Commission's Inquiry Report into Mental Health makes extensive recommendations to improve population mental health as a means of further enhancing productivity and economic growth. While providing an invaluable high‐level vision for reforming current mental health and social systems at a programmatic level, it lacks supporting evidence that would guide implementation of specific recommendations. We discuss important methodological considerations used to measure the output of the mental health sector and present clinical and cost‐effectiveness evidence, supporting selected recommendations. We suggest the development of a broad‐based health technology assessment process to facilitate consistent decision making across health and other government sectors.