Research Catalog

Title

Costing community care : theory and practice / edited by Ann Netten and Jennifer Beecham.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., U.S.A. : Ashgate, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Netten, Ann.
• Beecham, Jennifer
• University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit.

Description

xii, 214 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Comprises integrated papers on the relevance, utilization and theory of cost analyses in community care, drawing on over 15 years of work in the PSSRU (Personal and Social Services Research Unit). Three case studies are cited to illustrate the Unit's work in terms of methodology and policy.

Subject

• Costs and Cost Analysis
• Social Work > economics
• Community Health Services > economics
• Social service > Great Britain > Costs
• United Kingdom

Note

• "PSSRU, University of Kent at Canterbury."
• Essays from a series of workshops held by the Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Costing Community Care: The Role of this Book / Martin Knapp, Ann Netten and Jennifer Beecham -- Pt. I. The Costing Process -- 2. Background Theory / Martin Knapp -- 3. Costing Services: Ideals and Reality / Caroline Allen and Jennifer Beecham -- 4. Costing Informal Care / Ann Netten -- Pt. II. The Uses of Cost Information -- 5. Principles of Applied Cost Research / Martin Knapp -- 6. Proceed With Caution: The Use of Official Sources of Cost Information in Social Services Departments / Aidan Kelly and Andrew Bebbington -- 7. Costs, Prices and Charges / Ann Netten -- 8. New Policies and Old Logics: Costs Information and Modal Choice / Bleddyn Davies -- Pt. III. The Application of Costs -- 9. Calculating Unit Costs of a Centre for People with AIDS/HIV / Andrew Bebbington -- 10. Case Management: Costing the Experiments / David Challis, John Chesterman and Karen Traske -- 11. Costs, Needs and Outcomes in Community Mental Health Care / Jennifer Beecham, Martin Knapp and Andrew Fenyo -- 12. Intermediate Treatment: User Characteristics and the Prediction of Costs / Martin Knapp, Paul McCrone, Catherine Drury and Eriko Gould -- Pt. IV. Epilogue -- 13. Costs Estimation and Community Care: Why We Must Run Fast To Stand Still / Bleddyn Davies.

ISBN

• 1857420985 (hardback) :
• 1857421027 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^93016351^

OCLC

• 27430612
• SCSB-11529062

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library