Cost of illness of schizophrenia

Economic evaluation provides a methodology that allows policy makers, managers and clinicians to make choices between differing treatments, settings and illnesses in order to facilitate the judicious use of scarce resources. There are several methods of economic evaluation, cost of illness being one of them. Schizophrenia imposes huge economic impact on individuals, families, and communities. This paper attempts to review the issues related to carrying out cost of illness studies, the findings of cost of illness studies done for schizophrenia from various countries and various sociodemographic and illness factors which influence cost of illness of schizophrenia