Finnish schoolchildren's perceived health-related quality of life deteriorates remarkably with age.

Background: Information on individuals' functioning and disability is needed for numerous purposes in social and health care.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the perceived health-related quality of life of Finnish schoolchildren aged from 7 to 17 years. We were interested to ascertain if changes of health-related quality of life with age could be discovered.

Costs of intensive psychiatric care for treatment-resistant minors.

Background: Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence result in high costs to society. Despite the relevance of these problems, there are still relatively few economic evaluations of this domain, in particular the evaluation of the costs of treatment-resistant minors.

Aim Of The Study: The study is aimed to evaluate the costs of mental services use of 52 treatment-resistant minors at the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of the Niuvanniemi Hospital, in Kupio, Finland, and the costs of the mental health services used by these patients before their referral to this unit.