Cost of a community mental health service: a retrospective study on a psychosocial care center for alcohol and drug users in São Paulo

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Psychosocial care centers for alcohol and drug users (CAPS-ad) are reference services for treatment of drug users within the Brazilian National Health System. Knowledge of their total costs within the evidence-based decision-making process for public-resource allocation is ess...

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Main Authors: Paula Becker, Denise Razzouk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802018000500433&lng=en&tlng=en