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Keeping Pace with Assessing Cost-Effectiveness: Economic Efficiency and Priority-Setting in Mental Health

The last two decades have seen an increasing interest in, and demand for, economic analysis of mental health care and policy, fuelled to a large extent by government concerns in high-income countries about escalating total health-care expenditures. Considerations of cost and costeffectiveness have legitimately appeared on the health agenda in a number of different guises, including regulatory decisions relating to drug approval or pricing, priority-setting exercises across as well as within health programs and broader health-care reform processes. In short, the application of economic analysis and evaluation to mental health care has come a long way. Over the last 5 years or so and nowhere is this more apparent than in Australia, where a concentrated period of research effort – by the Assessing Cost-effectiveness (ACE) project and its forebears – has produced what can already be claimed to represent the most robust economic evidence base worldwide underpinning national mental health policy and resource (re)allocation. Remarkable as it may sound, no country to date has been able to clearly link mental health strategic policy or investment decisions to a credible, consistent and evidence-based assessment of what interventions actually work best and at what cost. That has now changed with this accumulation of cost and effectiveness data across the spectrum of psychiatric disorders, from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression in children and adolescents [1,2], through common mental disorders in adulthood [3,4], to more severe mental ill-