Spending For Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment, 1996
Open Access
- 1 September 1998
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 17 (5) , 147-157
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.17.5.147
Abstract
This paper is the result of an ongoing effort to track spending on mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment nationwide. Spending for MH/SA treatment was $85.3 billion in 1997: $73.4 billion for mental illness and $11.9 billion for substance abuse. MH/SA spending growth averaged 6.8 percent a year between 1987 and 1997, while national health expenditures grew by 8.2 percent.Keywords
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