Spending on mental health and substance abuse treatment, 1987-1997

Health Aff (Millwood). 2000 Jul-Aug;19(4):108-20. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.19.4.108.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Costs and Cost Analysis
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Financing, Government / statistics & numerical data
  • Health Care Surveys
  • Health Expenditures / classification
  • Health Expenditures / statistics & numerical data*
  • Health Expenditures / trends
  • Humans
  • Inflation, Economic / statistics & numerical data
  • Mental Disorders / economics*
  • Mental Disorders / epidemiology
  • Mental Health Services / economics*
  • Mental Health Services / statistics & numerical data
  • Substance-Related Disorders / economics*
  • Substance-Related Disorders / epidemiology
  • United States / epidemiology