Contents: Perspectives of Mental Illness - Mental Health Care Structures in Austria - Mental Health Care Financing - Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Care: An Exploration of Mental Health Care Reform Objectives and Reform Processes - Mental Health Care Financing in the Light of Reform Objectives and Discourse - Concluding Remarks: What Financing for Mental Health Care?
The Author: Ingrid Zechmeister was born in Upper Austria in 1972. After several years of practical experience in the area of ultrasound sonography at the Department of Gynaecology/Vienna General Hospital she moved to research in the field of (mental) health economics and health policy. Since 2000 she has been involved in research projects at the Department of Social Policy/Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and at the Vienna University Clinic of Psychiatry, and additionally in teaching activities at several Austrian Universities.