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| Ethics and economics in community care | | Author(s) | Mary Jenkins |
| Journal title | Critical Social Policy, issue 66, vol 21, no 1, February 2001 |
| Pages | pp 81-102 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Health services ; Social ethics ; Econometrics ; Quality of life. |
| Annotation | The need to evaluate health care is a given for today's health service. Since demands are infinite and resources are finite, there is an acceptance that cost considerations are integral to all interventions, whether hospital or community based. This work looks at community-based care and the dilemma of measuring services for practitioners engaged in providing community care. The article argues that any measurement should consider quality of life, a concept which continues to escape definition. There are questions around the effectiveness of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) as an economic measure in this area of work; and some thought is given to an alternative ethical tool which seems to incorporate the individualism of today's society and government's notion of community care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010724209 A |
| Classmark | PA: L: TQ: WE: F:59 |
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