Evaluating Outcomes in Health and Social Care

✍ Scribed by Helen Dickinson; Janine O'Flynn

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An essential resource for students, this bestselling textbook includes the latest research findings and contains more tools, frameworks and international examples of best practice to aid practitioners to more effectively evaluate partnerships.

✦ Table of Contents

EVALUATING OUTCOMES IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Contents
List of tables, figures and boxes
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Preface
Policy context
Aims and ethos
1 What are evaluation and outcomes, and why do they matter?
Evaluation
Inputs, outputs and outcomes
Policy overview
Towards evidence-based health and social care collaboration?
2. What does research tell us?
Challenge of ‘collaboration’
Collaboration and evaluation challenges
What should collaborative working achieve in theory?
Importance of clarity over the drivers and outcomes of collaboration
3. Hot topics and emerging issues
How can collaboration be effectively evaluated?
What kinds of evidence about integration might we present to different groups?
Performing governance: what is the additional work of collaboration?
4. Useful frameworks and concepts
Classifying collaborations
Process-based frameworks and measures
Measuring outcomes
Comprehensive evaluation frameworks
Better evaluation of collaboration
5. Recommendations for policy and practice
References
Index