Physical comorbidity costs of mental health disorders (ECNP)
Date: 2018 – 2022
Funding: European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP)
Collaborator(s): London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE)
Information: Judit Simon (co-PI), Dennis Wienand
The prevalence of mental health disorders has sharply increased within the last decades, posing significant burden to individuals as well as societies. While previous studies showed that patients with mental health disorders suffer from worse physical health, previous assessments of the economic burden were largely focused on mental health disorders only. Therefore, there is yet a need to identify the level of healthcare costs and productivity losses that are potentially linked to comorbid physical diseases in patients with mental health disorders.
The main aim of our research is to estimate excess healthcare costs and productivity losses of physical comorbidities in European Union member states, countries of the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom. Intermediate goals include reviewing and synthesizing the current mental health economic literature and epidemiological literature with focus on comorbid physical diseases, as well as building health-economic models.
Result(s):
- Wienand D, Wijnen L, Heilig D, Wippel C, Arango C, Knudsen GM, et al. Comorbid physical health burden of serious mental health disorders in 32 European countries. BMJ Ment Health. 2024 Apr 5;27(1): e301021. DOI: 10.1136/bmjment-2024-301021
- Simon J, Wienand D, Park A-L, Wippel C, Mayer S, Heilig D, et al. The excess resource use and costs of physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders: A systematic review and meta analysis. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2023 Jan;66:14-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2022.10.001
Presentations:
2025 | Wienand D. Lost productivity associated with the excess physical disease burden of severe mental health disorders in 32 European countries. Seventeenth Workshop of Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry (ICMPE) - Mental Health Outcomes, Services, Economics, Policy Research, Venice, Italy, 28-30 March 2025 (oral presentation) |
| Wienand D. Lost productivity associated with the excess physical disease burden of severe mental health disorders in 32 European countries. Austrian Health Economics Association Conference (ATHEA) - Status quo and new directions for Austrian health economics, Vienna, Austria, 6-7 February 2025 (oral presentation) |
2024 | Wienand D. Hospital care costs associated with excess physical health burden of serious mental health disorders in 32 European countries. European Health Economics Association Conference 2024, Vienna, Austria, 30 June – 3 July 2024 (oral presentation) |
2023 | Wienand D. Excess physical disease burden associated with selected mental health disorders in Europe: Synthesis and population-level extrapolation of epidemiological evidence. Sixteenth European Public Health Conference (EUPHA) - Our Food, Our Health, Our Earth: A Sustainable Future for Humanity, Dublin, Ireland, 08-11 November 2023 (oral presentation) |
| Simon J. The cost of excess physical health burden associated with major mental health disorders: a European modelling study. 36th ECNP Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 7-10 October 2023 (poster presentation) |
| Wienand D. Health economic arguments for better integrated care. Physical comorbidity burden and costs of mental health disorders in Europe. DHE 10th Anniversary Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 25 September 2023 (oral presentation) |
| Wienand D. Estimating the excess non-mental health hospital care costs associated with excess physical comorbidity burden of selected mental health disorders in Europe. Sixteenth Workshop of Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry (ICMPE) - Mental Health Outcomes, Services, Economics, Policy Research, Venice, Italy, 24-26 March 2023 (oral presentation) |
| Wienand D. Estimating the public health impact of excess physical health conditions potentially associated with mental health disorders in Europe: Population-level extrapolation of existing epidemiological evidence. Seventh Austrian Health Economics Association Conference (ATHEA) - Global Health Economics, Vienna, Austria, 23-24 February 2023 (oral presentation) |
2022 | Wienand D. EE122 Estimating Hospital Care Costs Associated With Excess Physical Comorbidities in Patients With Mental Health Disorders in Europe. The Professional Society for Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Austria Chapter Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 07 November 2022 (oral presentation) |
| Wienand D. EE122 Estimating the excess non-mental health hospital care costs associated with excess physical comorbidity burden of selected mental health disorders in Europe. ISPOR Europe 2022, Vienna, Austria, 06-09 November 2022 (poster presentation) |
| Simon J. The physical comorbidity cost of mental health disorders. 35th ECNP Congress, Vienna, Austria, 15-18 October 2022 (invited talk) |
| Wienand D. Estimating the public health impact of excess physical comorbidities associated with mental health disorders in Europe: structured review, meta-analysis and population-level extrapolation of existing epidemiological evidence. Fifteenth International Scientific Conference: Digitalisation and Education in Health Sciences. ASPHER Young Researcher Forum, Bled, Slovenia, 29 June 2022 (oral presentation) |
| Wienand D. Physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders: structured review and meta-analyses. Fifteenth Workshop of Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry (ICMPE) - Mental Health Services, Economics, Policy Research, Venice, Italy, 25-27 March 2022 (oral presentation) |
2021 | Wienand D. Excess resource and costs of physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Sixth Austrian Health Economics Association Conference (ATHEA) - Covid-19 and Beyond, Vienna, Austria, 23-24 September 2021 (oral presentation) |
2020 | Wienand D. The physical comorbidity cost of mental health disorders. Center for Public Health Science Lunch, Vienna, Austria, 26 November 2020 (oral presentation) |
| Simon J. The excess resource use and costs of physical comorbidities in patients with mental health disorders. 28th European Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain, 28-31 March 2020 (poster presentation) |
2019 | Simon J., McDaid D., Wienand D. Physical comorbidities of mental health disorders: the hidden burden. European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation Conference (ENMESH) - Managing mental health system complexity, Lisbon, Portugal, 06-08 June 2019 (symposium) |
| Wienand D. The Excess Costs and Resource Use of Physical Comorbidities in Patients with Mental Health Disorders: A Systematic Review. Fourteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry (ICMPE) - The Value of Mental Health Services, Venice, Italy, 29-31 March 2019 (oral presentation) |