Developing a service platform definition to promote evidence-based planning and funding of the mental health service system.

ABSTRACT: Ensuring that a mental health system provides 'value for money' requires policy makers to allocate resources to the most cost-effective interventions. Organizing cost-effective interventions into a service delivery framework will require a concept that can guide the mapping of evidence regarding disorder-level interventions to aggregations of services that are meaningful for policy makers. The 'service platform' is an emerging concept that could be used to this end, however no explicit definition currently exists in the literature. The aim of this study was to develop a service platform definition that is consistent with how policy makers conceptualize the major elements of the mental health service system and to test the validity and utility of this definition through consultation with me

SUBMITTER: Lee YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4276613 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature