Operations Research and Economics in Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：该计划将在心理健康和心理健康服务的经济学培训个人。需要支持8名博士前学员。最近的课程毕业生已被安置在主要的学术和研究环境。对在精神卫生服务研究和相关领域受过培训和有经验的经济学家的需求仍然强劲。最近的主要公开报告强调，在研究预防和治疗干预措施、减少未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的差异的根源时，必须进行成本效益研究和经济分析。拟议的培训计划旨在为学员提供：（1）微观经济理论和计量经济学方面的强大技能;（2）有关精神障碍性质和精神卫生服务系统的坚实知识基础;（3）实证研究的实践经验; (4)熟悉基本的公共卫生学科;（5）用经验证据评估干预措施的工具;（6）接触多学科观点;（7）理解主要的精神卫生和卫生政策问题。多个研究中心提供了丰富的研究环境，并提供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以及马里兰州大学医学院多个部门的教师合作的机会。约翰霍普金斯大学的学术课程包括严格的博士课程。卫生经济学，霍普金斯核心教师在卫生政策和管理，心理卫生，经济学，急诊医学和政策研究所部门的教学和指导工作，以及与约翰霍普金斯和马里兰州大学以及参与精神卫生服务提供和/或政策的州和地方机构的相关教师的牢固的工作关系。

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.