Findings on Disability Research Reported by Investigators at University of South Australia (Personalisation and the Disability Sector: What Can Health Economics Contribute To Inform Decision-making?)

2019 JUN 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Daily -- Data detailed on Disability Research have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Adelaide, Australia, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Consistent with policy reforms originating in the US, and subsequently adopted in the UK and Europe, the Australian disability sector is currently experiencing an era of unprecedented and transformative policy change towards personalisation and self-directed care. The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) introduces the use of personalised budgets, the main objective of which is to support the social and economic participation of people with disabilities.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from the University of South Australia, “Against this background, this article discusses the potential for health economic techniques to be usefully applied in the disability sector from two main perspectives. Firstly, to apply an economic evaluation framework to generate an evidence base of the cost effectiveness of new and existing services and supports.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Secondly, through the development and application of discrete choice experiments, a choice based method for building the knowledge and capacity of consumers to make informed preferences between alternative services and supports.”

For more information on this research see: Personalisation and the Disability Sector: What Can Health Economics Contribute To Inform Decision-making? Disability and Health Journal, 2019;12(1):7-10. Disability and Health Journal can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, 360 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010-1710, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Disability and Health Journal - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/disability-and-health-journal/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J. Ratcliffe, University of South Australia, Business School, Institute for Choice, Adelaide, Sa 5000, Australia. Additional authors for this research include C. Hutchinson and R. Milte.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2018.10.001. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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