Table 5.   The economic cost of mental illness and other selected major

                 illnesses in the United States

 

 

 

Cost*

 

Study Period

 

Mental Illness

 

   Rice et al.34

 

   NAMHC21

 

 

 

104

 

148

 

 

 

1985

 

1990

 

Depression

 

   Stoudemire et al.40

 

   Greenberg et al.18

 

 

 

16

 

44

 

 

 

1980

 

1990

 

Schizophrenia

 

   NAMHC21

 

 

 

33

 

 

 

1990

 

Arthritis

 

   Boston Consulting Group2

 

   Rice35

 

Coronary Heart Disease

 

   National Institutes of Health3

 

AIDS

 

   Scitovsky and Rice37

 

Cancer

 

   Boston Consulting Group2

 

Cardiovascular Disease

 

   NAHMC21

 

 

 

38

 

55

 

 

 

43

 

 

 

66

 

 

 

104

 

 

 

160

 

 

 

1987

 

1988

 

 

 

1987

 

 

 

1991

 

 

 

1987

 

 

 

1990

 

*  billions of dollars

    NAHMC=National Advisory Mental Health Council
 

 

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