Evaluating Community Care: Services for People with Learning Difficulties - Hardcover

Wright, K.G.; Etc.; Haycox, Alan; Leedham, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033509497X ISBN 13: 9780335094974

Publisher: Open University Press, 1994

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to describe and discuss the principles of evaluating community care services for people with learning difficulties and to explore how they have been applied in the development of policy in the last 10 years. Although the contents are based heavily upon the theory and practice of micro-economic appraisal of health and social care, other social science disciplines are exploited wherever relevant. No prior knowledge of any of these disciplines is expected. The coverage of the book follows the logical steps in policy evaluation including an explanation of different approaches to evaluation, a discussion of recent policy objectives, the measurement of outcomes and costs and the policy implications of recent evaluative studies. The book concludes with an examination of the relevance of evaluative studies to the new arrangements for community care of people with learning difficulties.

About this title

About the Author

Ken Wright is Deputy Director of the Centre for Health Economics at York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 033509497X
• ISBN 13: 9780335094974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192