Cost benefit analysis of heroin maintenance treatment
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Cost benefit analysis of heroin maintenance treatment
（Medical prescription of narcotics / editors, Ambros Uchtenhagen ... [et al.], vol. 2）
Karger, c2000
- : hardcover : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-130) and index
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Description
The book series 'Medical Prescription of Narcotics' gives an account of the research reports of a Swiss study on prescription of narcotics to chronic heroin addicts. In this second volume the results are examined from an economical standpoint. The four main aspects analyzed are housing, work, legal behavior and health. The benefits are rated according to the changes in the quantified effects for the participants followed for one year after entry to the trial. The assessment of the partial benefits is expressed per participant and per day and subsequently added to find the overall benefit. These results are compared with the costs of labor, narcotics, medical needs, and further operating costs of the project. The book is a stimulating contribution to the discussion on heroin maintenance, and provides essential arguments for decision makers in public health, politicians, administrators, physicians, therapists and social workers dealing with drug addicts.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: cost analysis on the medical prescription of narcotics
- definition of the problem - general situation, scientific program, objectives
- methods -scope of the study, procedure, types of costs, validation of the results
- results, including project comparisons -introduction, total costs, direct costs, labour costs, other operating costs (material costs), revenues, conclusions
- recommendations
- appendix
- socio-economic evaluation of the trials for the medical prescription of opiates
- overview
- introduction - the PROVE trials, scientific program, socioeconomic evaluation, present state of research
- rationale/hypotheses - housing, work, legal behaviour
- methodology - theoretical concept, practical implementation, data sources, cohorts studied
- housing - data sources, resource use, valuation, calculation of benefits, results, discussion
- work - data resources, working time, valuation, results, discussion
- legal behaviour - data sources, effects, valuations, results, discussion
- health - data resources, number of diagnoses, comparison method, assessment of costs per diagnosis, results, discussion
- general outlook -introduction, cost of the PROVE trials, overall benefit per participant and day, comparison of costs and benefits
- literature. Subject index.
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