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Treatment programs, regardless of their funding sources, are faced with constant pressures to keep costs to a minimum and to justify expenditures. This manual describes several ways to determine cost effectiveness and benefits, ranging from educated estimates to sophisticated, computerized methods. It even shows you how to find people at little or no cost to help you collect and analyze the data. The hands-on format and step-by-step instructions, exercises, and worksheets are designed to guide people from a variety of disciplines and educational backgrounds through the collection and analysis of data on costs, procedures, effectiveness and benefits.
Mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are common, highly disabling, and associated with significant premature mortality. The impact of these disorders on the social and economic well-being of individuals, families, and societies is large, growing, and underestimated. Despite this burden, these disorders have been systematically neglected, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with pitifully small contributions to scaling up cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies. Systematically compiling the substantial existing knowledge to address this inequity is the central goal of this volume. This evidence-base can help policy makers in resource-constrained settings as they prioritize programs and interventions to address these disorders.