Costs of Schizophrenia in the Netherlands

This study tries to identify and estimate the health care costs of schizophrenia in The Netherlands and to determine in a broader sense the total costs of schizophrenia for society in terms of productivity loss caused by absence from work and early retirement. The study can be described as a “cost-of-illness” study based on prevalence data. It shows that in The Netherlands about 2 percent of the total health care budget is spent on the treatment of schizophrenia patients. This figure is rather high, since the prevalence rate of schizophrenia in The Netherlands is only 0.6 percent. The indirect... Mehr ...