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Developing quality in personal social services : concepts, cases and comments / Adalbert Evers, Riitta Haverinen, Kai Leichsenring, Gerald Wistow (eds.).

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Developing quality in personal social services : concepts, cases and comments / Adalbert Evers, Riitta Haverinen, Kai Leichsenring, Gerald Wistow (eds.).
Publication
Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, c1997.

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Additional Authors
Evers, Adalbert.
Description
vi, 312 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Public policy and social welfare ; v. 22
Uniform Title
Public policy and social welfare ; v. 22.
Subject
Social service > Quality control
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Quality development : part of a changing culture of care in personal social services -- Business and professional approaches to quality improvement : a comparison of their suitability for the personal social services -- Quality management in Finland : problems and possibilities -- Quality in personal social services : the developing role of user involvement in the UK -- Professionals and quality initiatives in health and social services -- Measuring quality in personal social services? -- Towards a new client orientation through continuous improvement -- Combining client interests with professionalism in the organization -- Quality management and quality assurance in residential and nursing home care in Britain and Germany -- User-centred performance indicators for inspection of community care in Scotland : developing a framework -- Quality assured or quality compromised ? : developing domiciliary care markets in Britain -- Rationality and management in public care services -- Quality by users' influence and involvement in Denmark : the logical development of social services -- The city of Stockholm's awards for good quality -- Quality in home care and nursing? -- Promoting quality of life for older people in institutions -- Some national and local quality strategies in Finland -- Quality of care : on whose terms? -- Quality measurements and some unintended consequences : can quasi-quality be a consequence of quality standards?
ISBN
1840143371 (pbk)
LCCN
gb^97072141^
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Harvard Library