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Efficiency of home care: notes for an economic approach to resource allocation
Author(s)	Christine E Bishop
Journal title	Journal of Aging and Health, vol 11, no 3, August 1999
Pages	pp 277-298
Keywords	Domiciliary services ; Home nursing ; Grant allocation ; United States of America.
Annotation	Developments in the markets for home care are changing how home-delivered services are allocated and used. This paper looks at some market process questions related to home care, focusing on output value and producers and purchasers. It suggests than home health-related services are not valued for themselves but are, rather, highly customised inputs that can be used in the production of several alternative "commodities" ultimately demanded by consumers. These valued commodities are the restoration, improvement, or maintenance of health and functional status that can be produced by home-delivered care and the everyday support of daily functioning at home. If it is possible to describe how inputs into the production of these two commodities are allocated, it may be possible to make judgements about whether home-delivered care and other services would produce more value if they were allocated differently. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-990826237 A
Classmark	N: N4: QCG: 7T
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