Human Services and Long-Term Care: A Market Model

ISBN-13: 9780367504243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Yoshihiko Kadoya

Opis

Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences people’s quality of life. Yet, profit for human service providers is essential for sustainable service provision. This book focuses on striking a balance between human services’ need for quality assurance and market providers’ need for profit.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Human Service Age and New Economics  1. Studying Human Service Provision through Competitive Markets  Part I: Care Market Model for the Human Service Market  2. The Care Market Model  3. Verifying the Implementability of the Care Market Model  4. Verifying the Implementation Effects (Efficacy) of the Care Market Model  5. Verifying the Financial Sustainability of the Care Market Model  Part II: Performance Measurement for the Human Service Market  6. Outcome-based and Process-based Performance Measurement Model for the Human Service Market  7. Investigating the Empirical Applicability of Process-based Performance Measurement in Human Services Provided through a Competitive Market  8. Care Workers’ Training  9. An Industrial Policy to Ensure the Sustainability of the Care Market Model  Conclusion: "Managing the Human Service Market" Originating from Japan

O autorze

Yoshihiko Kadoya is Director of the Hiroshima Institute of Health Economics Research (HiHER) and Professor of Economics, Hiroshima University, Japan.