A strategy for assessing costs of implementing new practices in the child welfare system: adapting the English cost calculator in the United States
| Autor: | Lisa Holmes, Jean Soper, Lonnie R. Snowden, Lisa Saldana, John B. Reid, John Landsverk, Patricia Chamberlain, Courtenay Padgett, Jennifer Roles, Harriet Ward |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Evidence-based practice
Process (engineering) media_common.quotation_subject Health informatics California Article law.invention Unit (housing) Health administration Foster Home Care Oregon law Economics Humans media_common Actuarial science business.industry Health Policy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health Plan Implementation Psychiatry and Mental health Intervention (law) Calculator England Evidence-Based Practice Costs and Cost Analysis Pshychiatric Mental Health business Welfare Models Econometric |
| Zdroj: | Administration and policy in mental health. 38(1) |
| ISSN: | 1573-3289 |
| Popis: | In decisions to adopt and implement new practices or innovations in child welfare, costs are often a bottom-line consideration. The cost calculator, a method developed in England that can be used to calculate unit costs of core case work activities and associated administrative costs, is described as a potentially helpful tool for assisting child welfare administrators to evaluate the costs of current practices relative to their outcomes and could impact decisions about whether to implement new practices. The process by which the cost calculator is being adapted for use in US child welfare systems in two states is described and an illustration of using the method to compare two intervention approaches is provided. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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