Hur Prioritera Psykiatrisk Vård

Abstract

Mental disorders have on the whole been excluded in normative analyses of quality assessment anc' m authorized lists of priority-setting in health care. This is only one of several indications that mental health care may, more than ever, be at risk of being left in an apartheid situation. In a research perspective four sets of measures seem essential: Mental health services research to establish models and instruments to study and evaluate mental health care, health economics and health policy research to analyse to what extent market economy models are applicable in different health-care areas and to what extent, for example, special protective legislation is needed in the field of medical health care, and research in medical ethics to develop criteria and models for analysis of ethical conflicts in priority-setting in mental health care.