Mental health policy and practice across Europe: an overview

66 Mental health policy and practice
The mixed economy matrix
A useful starting point for understanding the resource base of a mental health
system and its component services is to chart these mixed economies of provision
and financing. Cross-classification of the main funding and provider types
generates the matrix representation of Figure 4.2, a simple framework describing
just the broad inter-connections that characterize pluralist care systems and
their constituent transactions.
What do the cells of the matrix contain? A relatively straightforward task
for a given country or region – although not attempted here – would be to
locate services (e.g. counselling, inpatient facilities, community nurses, primary
Figure 4.2
The mixed economy matrix for mental health
Source : Adapted from Knapp (1984)