Child welfare privatization: Quantitative indicators and policy issues

Evaluation Review

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 87-103

  Yampolskaya, Svetlana ^a   Paulson, Robert I ^a,b   Armstrong, Mary ^a,b,c   Jordan, Neil ^a,b   Vargo, Amy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Dept of Child and Family Studies

Author keywords

Child welfare; Evaluation; Indicators; Privatization

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FLORIDA; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PRIVATIZATION;

EID: 1842486688     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X03258359     Document Type: Article

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