Children at risk: Outcome and cost measures needed

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-18

  Weil, Thomas P ^a  

^a Bedford Health Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Child Development; Foster Care; Human Services; Kinship Care; Reunification; Welfare Economics

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOSTER CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; MENTAL HEALTH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 0032822916     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022667824165     Document Type: Review

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