Examining mental illness trends in the United States from 2006 to 2019
Olson, Thomas; Vodenska, Irena; Zhang, Guanglan; Nishijima, Marislei; Chitkushev, Lou
We investigate the characteristics of medical expenditures associated with mental illness hospitalizations using the Truven Health MarketScan Database. We focus on the inpatient admissions due to mental illness of adults aged 1S to 64 between 2006 to 2019. We aim to answer the following questions: (1) Did the financial crisis of 2008 impact mental health in the U.S.?(2) What are the other macro-level (socioeconomic and regulartory) and micro-level (individualpatient related) factors that affect the cost of inpatient care due to mental illness; (3) Did mental illness affect men and women differently? (4) How were different regions within the U.S. affected by mental illness?
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