Seminar: Missed mental health diagnoses in childhood
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Missed mental health diagnoses in childhood: Identifying selection and long-term effects', presented by Jill Furzer from the University of Toronto.
In this study, Furzer combines machine learning and causal identification to understand heterogeneous long-term effects of mental health risk in childhood. She identifies misdiagnosis based on variation in diagnosis by birth date and predicted mental health risk, and investigates drivers of missed or low-risk diagnoses. It is found that low-risk diagnoses are rare, but missed or delayed diagnoses, especially for females, pose a larger issue. The adverse effects of diagnosis and treatment on education and later-life income are shown to be concentrated in low-risk individuals. Treatment effects are positive and increasing for high-risk children and improve with earlier intervention. Furzer finds evidence that the larger long-term impact of mental health issues for girls is driven by underestimated mental health risk and delayed diagnosis.
Jill Furzer is a PhD Candidate in Health Economics at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation and a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Her research interests are in health and education economics with a focus on child mental health identification and long-term socioeconomic effects.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!
Event Details
- Date:
- 2 September 2020 at 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Venue:
- This seminar will take place via Zoom - please email shannon.stanwell@monash.edu to register
- Categories:
- Health Economics
Description
The Centre for Health Economics at Monash Business School invites you to the research webinar 'Missed mental health diagnoses in childhood: Identifying selection and long-term effects', presented by Jill Furzer from the University of Toronto.
In this study, Furzer combines machine learning and causal identification to understand heterogeneous long-term effects of mental health risk in childhood. She identifies misdiagnosis based on variation in diagnosis by birth date and predicted mental health risk, and investigates drivers of missed or low-risk diagnoses. It is found that low-risk diagnoses are rare, but missed or delayed diagnoses, especially for females, pose a larger issue. The adverse effects of diagnosis and treatment on education and later-life income are shown to be concentrated in low-risk individuals. Treatment effects are positive and increasing for high-risk children and improve with earlier intervention. Furzer finds evidence that the larger long-term impact of mental health issues for girls is driven by underestimated mental health risk and delayed diagnosis.
Jill Furzer is a PhD Candidate in Health Economics at the University of Toronto's Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation and a fellow at the Canadian Centre for Health Economics. Her research interests are in health and education economics with a focus on child mental health identification and long-term socioeconomic effects.
CHE seminar series
At the Centre for Health Economics, we are working on running as many of our seminars as possible online while COVID-19 remains an obstacle to getting together. As we will be working with experts and colleagues in other parts of the world there will be some movement in the times and days that seminars run to take into account different time zones and availabilities. If you would like to be on our seminar email list, please be directly in contact by email to shannon.stanwell@monash.edu.
Hope to see you there!