Operations Research and Economics in Mental Health

描述(由申请者提供)：该计划将对个人进行心理健康经济学和心理健康服务方面的培训。要求为8名博士前实习生提供支持。最近的项目毕业生被安排在主要的学术和研究环境中。对受过心理健康服务研究及相关领域培训和经验的经济学家的需求依然旺盛。最近的主要公共报告强调了成本效益研究和经济分析在研究预防和治疗干预措施、减少未得到满足的服务需求和促进更有效的治疗做法的战略以及服务需求和使用方面差异的根源方面的重要性。拟议的培训计划旨在为学员提供：(1)在微观经济学理论和计量经济学方面的扎实技能；(2)关于精神障碍的性质和精神健康服务系统的坚实知识基础；(3)实证研究方面的实践经验； (4)熟悉基本公共卫生学科；(5)用经验证据评估干预措施的工具；(6)接触多学科视角；(7)对主要精神卫生和卫生政策问题的理解。多个研究中心提供了丰富的研究环境，并提供了与约翰·霍普金斯大学公共卫生、医学、护理和艺术与科学学院和马里兰大学医学院多个系的教师合作的机会。约翰霍普金斯大学的学术计划包括严格的卫生经济学博士课程，霍普金斯大学卫生政策和管理系、精神卫生系、经济学系、急诊医学系和政策研究所的核心教员的教学和指导工作，以及与约翰霍普金斯大学和马里兰大学的相关教员以及参与精神健康服务提供和/或政策的州和地方机构的密切工作关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program will train individuals in the economics of mental health and mental health services. Support of 8 pre-doctoral trainees is requested. Recent program graduates have been placed in major academic and research settings. Demand for economists with training and experience in mental health services research and related fields remains strong. Recent major public reports have emphasized the importance of cost-effectiveness studies and economic analysis in studying preventive and treatment interventions, strategies for reducing unmet service needs and promoting more effective treatment practices, and the sources of disparities in service needs and use. The proposed training program seeks to provide trainees with: (1) strong skills in microeconomic theory and econometrics; (2) a solid knowledge base regarding the nature of mental disorders and the mental health services system; (3) hands-on experience in empirical research; (4) familiarity with basic public health disciplines; (5) tools for evaluating interventions with empirical evidence; (6) exposure to multiple disciplinary perspectives; and (7) understanding of major mental health and health policy issues. Multiple research centers provide a rich research environment and offer collaboration opportunities with faculty in multiple departments in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing and Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins and the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland. The academic program at Johns Hopkins includes a rigorous curriculum for the Ph.D. in Health Economics, the teaching and mentoring efforts of Hopkins core faculty in the Departments of Health Policy and Management, Mental Hygiene, Economics, Emergency Medicine, and the Institute for Policy Studies, and strong working relationships with associated faculty at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland as well as state and local agencies involved in mental health services provision and/or policy.