Table 1.
Direct medical and direct non-medical costs by health service type
| Direct Medical Costs (in 2003 €) | Direct Non-Medical Costs (in 2003 €) | |||
| Health service type | unit | cost pricea | km, P, hrsb | cost pricec |
| Medical doctor | Consult | 20,20 | 1.8 km, 1 h | 11,10 |
| Medical specialist | Consult | 98,00 | 7 km, 2 h | 20,20 |
| Regional mental health service | Contact | 124,00 | 10 km, 3 h | 29,00 |
| Regional addiction serviced | Contact | 124,00 | 10 km, 3 h | 29,00 |
| Mental Hospital – Outpatient | Consult | 88,00 | 12 km, 4 h | 37,20 |
| Mental Hospital – Day care | Contact | 125,00 | 12 km, 4 h | 37,20 |
| Mental Hospital – Inpatient | Day | 250,00 | 8 h | 66,40 |
| General Hospital – Outpatient | Consult | 56,00 | 7 km, 3 h | 28,50 |
| General Hospital – Day care | Contact | 229,00 | 7 km, 4 h | 36.80 |
| Teaching Hospital – Outpatient | Consult | 100,00 | 12 km, 3 h | 29,30 |
| Academic Hospital – Day care | Contact | 229,00 | 12 km, 4 h | 37,60 |
| Private practice psychotherapist | Session | 76,00 | 5 km, 2 h | 19,90 |
| Social workere | Contact | 45,00 | 7 km, 3 h | 28,50 |
| Physiotherapist | Contact | 22,75 | 1,8 km, 2 h | 19,40 |
| Alternative Healer | Contact | 8,30 | 1,8 km, 2 h | 19,40 |
| Self-Help | Session | 0,00 | 10 km, 3 h | 29,00 |
| Home care, nursing | Hour | 30,70 | 0 km, 0 h | 0,00 |
| Home care, domestic | Hour | 21,70 | 0 km, 0 h | 0,00 |
| Informal care (family, friends)f | Hour | 8,30 | 0 km, 0 h | 0,00 |
a Integral unit cost prices [17].
b Based on average distances (in km), parking costs and travel + waiting + treatment
times (in hrs) for receiving treatment [17]
c Costs of 1 km = € 0.16, 1 h parking = €2.50 €, 1 h patient's time = €8.30 [17].
d Valued as outpatient mental health services.
e From DFL 77,00 in 1993, converted into Euro, indexed for 2003 (cf. http://www.cbs.nl) and
rounded.
f Valued as domestic help [17].