ArticlePopulation health management2018
Public Health System-Delivered Mental Health Preventive Care Links to Significant Reduction of Health Care Costs.
Article in Population health management, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Economic implications of mental health disorders: a literature review of hospitalization costs, interventions, and outcomes.Journal of medicine and life · 2026Review
- Reimagining Resilience in Aging: Leveraging AI/ML, Big Data Analytics, and Systems Innovation.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Collaborating for COVID-19: Hospital Health Information Exchange and Public Health Partnership.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2024Article
- Strengthening the Public Health Partnership and Telehealth Infrastructure to Reduce Health Care Disparities.Population health management · 2022Article
- Population-Based Approaches to Mental Health: History, Strategies, and Evidence.Annual review of public health · 2020Review
- Integrating local health departments to reduce suicide-related emergency department visits among people with substance use disorders - Evidence from the state of Maryland.Preventive medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
The objective was to estimate the association between health care expenditures and implementation of preventive mental health programs by local health departments (LHDs). Multilevel nationally representative data sets were linked to test the hypothesis that LHDs' provision of preventive mental health programs was associated with cost savings. A generalized linear model with log link and gamma distribution and state-fixed effects was used to estimate the association between LHDs' mental illness prevention services and total health care expenditures per person per year for adults aged 18 years and older. The main outcome measure was the annual total health care expenditure per person. The findings indicated that LHD provision of population-based prevention of mental illness was associated with an $824 reduction (95% confidence interval: -$1,562.94 to -$85.42, P < 0.05) in annual health care costs per person, after controlling for individual, LHD, community, and state characteristics. LHDs can play a critical role in establishing an integrated health care model. Their impact, however, has often been underestimated or neglected. Results showed that a small investment in LHDs may yield substantial cost savings at the societal level. The findings of this research are critical to inform policy decisions for the expansion of the Public Health 3.0 infrastructure.
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