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Perspectives in Psychiatry Volume 4 Health Economics of Depression Edited by B. Jonsson Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and J. Rosenbaum Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Major depressive illness is associated with significant morbidity and imposes large social and financial burdens on the individual and society. In view of the demands made on finite health care resources, clinical psychiatry must increasingly focus on the cost-effectiveness of treatment options as well as their safety, efficacy and impact on quality of life. In this book a multidisciplinary team of health economists and psychiatrists explores the concept of mental health economics and highlights its importance to the practising psychiatrist. Attention is drawn to the cost of mental illness to the community, the economic consequences of treatment failure and the analysis of cost-effectiveness of pharmacological treatment of depression. Perspectives in Psychiatry Series Advisors: O. Benkert (Germany) G.B. Cassano (Italy) J.P. Feighner (USA) D.G. Grahame-Smith (UK) J.J. Lopez-lbor (Spain) J. Mendlewicz (Belgium) S.A. Montgomery (UK) F. Rouillon (France) Volume 1: Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors J.P. Feighner and W.F. Boyer ISBN 0 471 92890 9 1991 168pp Volume 2: Diagnosis of Depression Edited by J.P. Feighner and W.F. Boyer ISBN 0 471 92891 7 1991 202pp Volume 3: Long-term Treatment of Depression Edited by S.A. Montgomery and F. Rouillon ISBN 0 471 92892 5 1992 275pp

This book contains original contributions on theory, applications and experiences from the use of advanced techniques applied to distributed systems. The emphasis is on services and protocols. Specific areas addressed include: Specification languages and models, Formal specification, Testing and certification, Implementation and Environments and automated tools. In addition to these more traditional topics, contributions are included on: bull;Specification, testing and verification of real-time properties; bull;Novel methods for formal specification of realistic services; bull;Automated and semi-automated analysis of non-finite-state systems; bull;Design and implementation by stepwise refinement and bull;Applications of the above to new generations of high-speed networks, multi-media services and distributed environments for computer supported cooperative work.