Perspectives on the Economics of Mental Health
从经济学角度分析心理健康服务市场，探讨其商品有效性评估困难、新生产者涌入、技术变革、保险覆盖及政府监管压力等特征，适合关注心理健康政策与市场结构的读者。
* The effectiveness of the commodity in accomplishing what it claims to accomplish is very difficult to assess. * New producers of the commodity are entering the industry in substantial numbers, but each entrant is providing an identifiably different version of the generic commodity. * The new producers, claiming that their products are as effective as those of the traditional producers, are struggling to have their products also covered by * Technical change has transformed the supply side from one dominated by large, government-run institutions to widely dispersed, small, more independent providers. * The commodity is so important to some individuals that access cannot legally be denied because of inability to pay. * Many consumers can purchase the commodity at a price near zero because they have insurance. * Government agencies, recognizing these conditions, are under continuous and conflicting pressure to license and not to license the new producers, to restrict entry and to facilitate competition, to expand insurance coverage to encompass some new producers and to hold down expenditures by not expanding it.