THE JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND
ECONOMICS
The First Adam
Smith Award
in Mental Health Policy
and Economics Research
We are pleased to inform our readers that The
First Adam Smith Award in Mental Health Policy
and Economics Research was presented during the "Sixth
Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry - Mental Health Policy
and Economics: The Value of Research", held in March 28-30, 2003, in Venice,
Italy. The winning article was:
- Eric Slade and David Salkever: Symptom Effects on Employment in a
Structural Model in Mental Illness and Treatment: Analysis of Patients
with Schizophrenia (J
Ment Health Policy Econ 2001;4:25-34)
In addition, two Excellence in Mental Health
Policy and Economics Research Awards were presented for
the following articles:
- Pierre K. Alexandre and Michael T. French: Labor Supply of Poor Residents
in Metropolitan Miami, Florida: The Role of Depression and the Co-morbid
Effects of Substance Use J Ment Health Policy Econ 2001;4:161-173
- Ernst Berndt, Ashoke Bhattacharjya, David N. Mishol, Almudena Arcelus
and Thomas Lasky: An Analysis of the Diffusion of New Antidepressants:
Variety, Quality and Marketing Efforts J Ment Health Policy Econ
2002;5:3-19
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