Cost-benefit analysis and alcoholism.
Cost-benefit analysis and alcoholism.
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成本效益分析和酗酒。
DOI:
10.15288/jsa.1977.38.1371
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发表时间:
1977
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通讯作者:
B. Montague
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作者:
M. Hertzman;B. Montague
management is the calculation of the proposed and actual cost:benefit ratio. This technique can be used both as a planning tool and as an auditable performance measurement. Particularly in times of funding and resource shortages, managers demand that performance measurement and accountability be built into planned and ongoing programs. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), as a category of techniques rather than a single format, has recently been applied to social systems such as those for the treatment of alcoholism. The basic impetus for this activity is an attempt to evaluate the extent to which a service or program is producing or is likely to produce a desired series of ends for a given amount of expenditure. In the past few years there has been accelerated interest in applying cost-benefit techniques to treatment of alcoholism, drug addiction and mental illness. The public is conscious of the rapidly accelerating costs of health care. Rates of cost increase for health care are outstripping all other segments of the national economy. At the same time, health professionals are expressing their concern about our lack of strong measures of the outcomes of specific health interventions, the benefits of care. Recently the Congress and the Administration have attempted to focus on how well care From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20852.