The Outcomes of Health and Social Care Partnerships

International Perspectives on Health and Social Care: Partnership Working in Action

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 152-165

  Dickinson, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluating service user outcomes of partnerships a complex task; Health and social care partnership outcomes; Health and social care services evaluated in terms of resource inputs; Improved health and emotional well being; Intervention logics underpinning public sector activities; Issue of process; Paradigm of newpublic management (NPM); Partnership evaluation challenges; Partnership evaluations and issue of attribution; Service user satisfaction ratings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856700308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444322583.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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