Incentives and disincentives for the treatment of depression and anxiety: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is widespread support for primary care to help address growing mental health care demands. Incentives and disincentives are widely used in the design of health care systems to help steer toward desired goals. The absence of a conceptual model to help understand the range of factors that influence the provision of primary mental health care inspired a scoping review of the literature. Understanding the incentives that promote and the disincentives that deter treatment for depression and anxiety in the primary care context will help to achieve goals of greater access to mental health care.

Method

A review of the literature was conducted to answer the question, how are incentives and disincentives conceptualized in studies investigating the treatment of common m

SUBMITTER: Ashcroft R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4086319 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature