POSC74 Considerations for Mental Health Effects in Health Economic Analyses

Abstract

COVID-19 illuminated the fragility and importance of mental wellbeing. While health economic analyses often exclusively focus on direct health impacts and costs specific to the disease being assessed, these analyses commonly neglect downstream mental health impacts and costs of poor prognosis, debilitating adverse events, ineffective therapy, or limited remaining interventional options. Therefore, economic analyses may not capture the full picture when comparing interventions.