Update Health AffairsVol. 14, No. 3 Market Rationales, Rationing, And Rationality: Mental Health Care Reform In The United KingdomShane Kavanagh and Martin Knapp AffiliationsPersonal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), University of Kent at Canterbury.economics of social care at PSSRU, and professor of health economics and director of the Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.PUBLISHED:Fall 1995No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.14.3.260AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSMental healthGeneral practitionerPsychiatric hospitalsHome carePrimary carePharmaceuticalsPsychiatristsCase managementMarketsHealth services Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 15 History Published online 1 January 1995 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis research was funded by the Department of Health in London. The authors thank John Baldock, Jennifer Beecham, David Challis, Lou Opit (University of Kent at Canterbury), Randall Ellis (Boston University), and two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Thanks are also due to David Mechanic for making a prepublication copy of his paper available. The opinions expressed and any errors that remain are the responsibility of the authors.PDF downloadCited byEconomics of Evidence-Based Practice and Mental Health25 June 2012Economic issues in access to medications: Schizophrenia treatment in EnglandInternational Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol. 28, No. 5Access to mental health supports in England: Crisis resolution teams and day servicesInternational Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Vol. 28, No. 5Financial and organisational reforms in the health sector; implications for the financing and management of mental health care servicesHealth Policy, Vol. 63, No. 1Issues of Daily Living for Persons with Mental IllnessPsychiatric Rehabilitation Skills, Vol. 4, No. 3The impact of community mental health reform on service users: a cohort study28 February 2002 | Health & Social Care in the Community, Vol. 7, No. 2Managed Mental Health Care in the UKThe economic consequences of Alzheimer's disease in the context of new drug developmentsInternational Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 13, No. 8Purchasers, providers and managed careCurrent Opinion in Psychiatry, Vol. 10, No. 2At What Cost? Using Cost Information for Purchasing and Providing Community Care for People with Learning DisabilitiesBritish Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 25, No. 1The mental health residential care study: The costs of provision6 July 2009 | Journal of Mental Health, Vol. 6, No. 1Economic Evaluations and Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Mental Health ProblemsJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 38, No. 1Shaping national policyCurrent Opinion in Psychiatry, Vol. 9, No. 2Schizophrenia: Shifting the balance of careSocial Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 30, No. 5States' Embrace of Managed Mental Health CareSusan M. Essock and Howard H. Goldman24 July 2017 | Health Affairs, Vol. 14, No. 3