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Cost-effectiveness of telecare for people with social care needs: the Whole Systems Demonstrator cluster randomised trial
Henderson, Catherine; Knapp, Martin; Fernández, José-Luis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Purpose of the study: to examine the costs and cost-effectiveness of ‘second-generation’ telecare, in addition to … standard support and care that could include ‘first-generation’ forms of telecare, compared with standard support and care that … could include ‘first-generation’ forms of telecare. Design and methods: a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial with …
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WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE OF FOREST TREES BY COOPERATE ORGANISATIONS
Adekunle, M.F.; Adedokun, M.O.; Adedoja, A.A. - Farm Management Association of Nigeria (FAMAN) - 2006
Payments for environmental services (PES) especially of the forests are considered a potential instrument to mitigate environment and development challenges faced in many tropical countries. The success of any PES scheme is highly dependent on reliable economic data and monetary values of the...
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The welfare implications of disability for older people in Ireland
Cullinan, John; Gannon, Brenda; Eamon O’Shea - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 2, pp. 171-183
Recent data analysed for Ireland suggest a strong link between disability status and household poverty, while there …, this paper estimates the welfare implications of disability for older people in Ireland. We define and estimate models of … the private costs borne by households with older persons who have a disability in Ireland, both in general and by severity …
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Enabling women to address their priority health concerns : the role of community-based systems of social protection
Moneti, Francesca - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 2004
Focuses on the process of the contribution, at community level, of health micro-insurance to improvement in maternal health care.
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Steering Towards Happiness in The Netherlands
Boelhouwer, Jeroen; Campen, Cretien - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 59-72
As in many other countries, the economic crisis is being felt in the Netherlands. Is that a good moment for a government to develop a policy to increase happiness? Is it actually possible to raise the level of happiness in the Netherlands? The Dutch are after all already happy, and the objective...
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Power, Professionalism and Organisational Transformation
May, Christopher; Buck, Mary Eleanor - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 2, pp. 5-5
Utilising data drawn from a study of a social service organisation, this article aims to understand the relationship between the rationale of organisational transformations and the professional status of social workers. It contains an examination of the original aims of Community Care...
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Cost-effecriveness in community care
Wright, Ken - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1987
This paper summarises the cost-effectiveness work which has been carried out on alternative patterns of care for elderly people, people with a mental handicap and people with chronic mental illness. The amount of work completed varies according to the client group concerned. There is, for...
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Programme budgeting revisited: special reference to people with learning disabilities
Jones, Christopher; Wright, Ken - Centre for Health Economics, Department of Economics … - 1995
The recent reorganisation of community care removed many of the perverse incentives identified in the previous system. However, the organisation of care for many people is still divided across several agencies in the public and independent sectors. As purchasing and providing agencies in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344357
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Entrepreneurship and social and community care
Sundin, Elisabeth - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 5 (2011) April, pp. 212-222
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that not only (obviously) social enterprises but also conventional ones are based on social intentions and that these social intentions often have community dimensions. The conclusion of these findings is that conventional research, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393181
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Community Mental Health Services for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Issues and Approaches to Optimizing Outcomes
Hassiotis, Angela - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 7, pp. 409-417
This article describes the issues associated with the development of services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and mental disorders [including challenging behavior (CB)] and reviews the evidence for providing effective community mental health services. Despite the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990306