The mental health residential care study: the costs of provision

Daniel Chisholm, Martin Knapp, Jack Astin, Jennifer Beecham, Bernard Audini, Paul Lelliott (1997)

Journal of Mental Health 6 1 85-99

https://doi.org/10.1080/09638239719076

Available online: 6 July 2009

Abstract

In the face of concern regarding the provision of mental health residential care, an economic component was incorporated into the design of an epidemiological survey of mental health needs in eight districts. This paper sets out the methods used to und