TY  - JOUR
AU  - Berndt,Ernst R.
AU  - Busch,Alisa B.
AU  - Frank,Richard G.
AU  - Normand,Sharon-Lise
TI  - Real Output in Mental Health Care During the 1990s
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11557
PY  - 2005
Y2  - August 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11557
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11557.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ernst R. Berndt
MIT Sloan School of Management
100 Main Street, E62-518
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617/253-2665
Fax: 617-227-0880
E-Mail: eberndt@mit.edu

Alisa Busch
Harvard University
E-Mail: abusch@hcp.med.harvard.edu

Richard Frank
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0178
Fax: 617/432-1219
E-Mail: frank@hcp.med.harvard.edu

Sharon-Lise Normand
Harvard University
Harvard Medical School
Department of Health Care
180 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA  02115-5899
E-Mail: normand@hcp.med.harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-08-15
AB  - Health accounts document changes over time in the level and composition of health spending.  There has been a continued evolution in the ability to track such outlays.  Less rapid has been the ability to interpret changes in spending.  In this paper we apply quality adjusted price indexes for several major mental disorders to national mental health account estimates to assess changes in real "output".  We show that using the new price indexes reveals large gains in real output relative to application of BLS indexes.
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