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100 1 _aKNAPP, Martin
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245 1 0 _aPrivate, voluntary or public? Comparative cost-effectiveness in community mental health care
260 _aUK :
_bPolicy Press,
_cjan. 1999
520 3 _aTwo prominent features of mental health policy in the UK in recent years have been the run-down of hospital provision and the changing of the balance between public and other provider sectors. This article examines the cost, quality of care and outcome implications. Public, voluntary and private providers of mental health care are compared, based on a long-term study of people moving out of psychiatric hospitals in London. Costs are found to be lowest in the private (for-profit) sector, and highest in the NHS and consortium (NHS and voluntary sector partnership) sectors. However, quality of care indicators suggest that the lowest cost sector is performing least well, and the highest cost sectors offer the best quality. These are associated with some differences in user outcome
651 4 _aChina
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700 1 _aHALLAM, Angela
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700 1 _aBECHAM, Jennifer
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700 1 _aBAINES, Barry
_945679
773 0 8 _tPolicy & Politics
_g27, 1, p. 25-41
_dUK : Policy Press, jan. 1999
_xISSN 03055736
_w
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998 _a20111020
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_cGeisneer
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
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041 _aeng