The Productivity Commission's Inquiry Report into Mental Health makes extensive recommendations to improve population mental health as a means of further enhancing productivity and economic growth. While providing an invaluable high‐level vision for reforming current mental health and social systems at a programmatic level, it lacks supporting evidence that would guide implementation of specific recommendations. We discuss important methodological considerations used to measure the output of the mental health sector and present clinical and cost‐effectiveness evidence, supporting selected recommendations. We suggest the development of a broad‐based health technology assessment process to facilitate consistent decision making across health and other government sectors.

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生产力委员会关于心理健康的调查报告-卫生经济学视角的评论

生产力委员会关于精神健康的调查报告提出了广泛的建议，以改善人们的精神健康，以此作为进一步提高生产力和经济增长的手段。尽管在计划层面上为改革当前的精神卫生和社会系统提供了宝贵的高层视野，但它缺乏指导具体建议实施的指导性证据。我们讨论了用于衡量精神卫生部门产出的重要方法论因素，并提供了支持选定建议的临床和成本效益证据。我们建议开发基础广泛的卫生技术评估程序，以促进整个卫生和其他政府部门的一致决策。