Journal Information
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics publishes high quality empirical, analytical, methodologic papers, focusing on the application of health and economic research and policy analysis in mental health. The Journal publishes also high quality perspective articles, including articles that examine mental health policies and reforms, discuss the financing and organization of services for mental disorders, evaluate the application to mental disorders of the research methods aimed to assess treatment costs and health outcomes assessment. It offers an international forum to enable the different participants in mental health policy and economics - psychiatrists involved in research and care and other mental health workers, health services researchers, health economists, policy makers, public and private health providers, advocacy groups, and the pharmaceutical industry - to share common information in a common language. The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics also serves as a point of reference for governmental and international organisations and will develop an international group of informed readers, who will in turn be able to disseminate policy information to local organisations. The overall aim is to improve mental health policy, planning and delivery in all countries on an interdisciplinary research basis for the benefit of patients with mental and addictive disorders.
Abstracting and Indexing Services
The Journal of Mental
Health Policy and Economics is covered by the following abstracting and
indexing services:
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (Elsevier), Index Medicus /
MEDLINE, ISI Social Science Citation Index and Current Contents/Social
& Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Economic Literature /ECONLIT. Mental
Health Abstracts (Plenum), Psychological Abstracts / PSYCHINFO and
Sociological Abstracts
Official Journal
The Journal
of Mental Health Policy and Economics is the Official Journal of the
Section on Mental Health Economics of the World Psychiatric
Association.
Contact Information
ICMPE - Via Daniele Crespi, 7 -
20123 Milano, Italy
email: journal@icmpe.org