Suicide in depression, lost years of life and gross social consequences. What is the outcome of suicide prevention?
Wolfersdorf, M.; Martinez, C.
Psychiatrische Praxis 25(3): 139-141
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0303-4259 PMID: 9653783 Document Number: 485147
In recent years there has been a tendency in research and clinical treatment to discuss also economic aspects of mental illness in the context of outcome and consequences of treatment for the individual and society. In our study on economic consequences of suicide prevention we could show that a reduction of suicide mortality of depressed patients could save money to the tune of thousands of million Deutschmark.