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Research Interests
Professor Davies' work focuses on equity, efficiency and the reform of community care. Two main themes have been targeting and service productivities and efficiencies. Another has been the development of care management, the focus on which he introduced to the UK through a set of experiments four books and numerous papers during the 1970s and early1980s.
A fourth has been financing mechanisms and reforms of long-term care in other countries. Another activity has been working with the team developing models for the long-run projection of demand and supply in long-term care. His main work currently is working with José Fernández to finish a book on use of community social services and their targeting, and a book on how differences in local authority priorities, other policies structures and endowments affect utilisation and efficiency.
He was awarded an OBE for his services to social science and social policy, and he is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
He lectured in economics in the University of Wales and in social policy at the LSE before founding the PSSRU in 1974 to study issues of equity and efficiency in community and long-term care by developing and applying a 'production of welfare approach.
Professor Davies has worked and been the author of books focusing on the theory of territorial justice (which he established with three books written in the 1960s), social and economic consequences of gambling, the mitigation of child poverty, and the economics of higher education.
Professor Davies was recently awarded the American Public Health Association Gerontological Health Section's International Lifetime Achievement Award 2007.
Since founding the PSSRU in 1974 to study issues of equity and efficiency in community and long-term care by developing and applying a 'production of welfare approach, Professor Davies' work has increasingly focused on equity, efficiency and the reform of community care. Two main themes have been targeting and service productivities and efficiencies. Equity and Efficiency Policy: Needs, Service Productivities, Efficiencies and their Implications, written with José Fernandez, is a recent example, a sequel to Resources Needs and Outcomes in Community-Based Care, having the same focus and being based on a collection with the same design. Professor Davies was awarded an OBE for his services to social science and social policy, and he is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.Bleddyn Davies' Publications
Journal Articles
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Local authority management and adaptability (1965)
Davies B
The Lancet
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Fair effective and efficient targeting in community care: implications of need utilisation productivity and efficiency patterns (2005)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
Ashgate
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Equity and Efficiency Policy in Community Care. Needs, Service Productivities, Efficiencies and their Implications (2000)
Davies B, Fernández J-L, Nomer B
Ashgate
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Caring for Older People: An Assessment of Community Care in the 1990s (2000)
Bauld L, Chesterman J, Davies B, Judge K, Mangalore R
Ashgate
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Demand for Long-Term Care: Projections of Long-Term Care Finance for Elderly People (1998)
Wittenberg R, Pickard L, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury, London School of Economics and University of Manchester
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Community Care in England and France (1998)
Davies B, Fernández J-L, Saunders R
Ashgate
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From Vision to Reality: Changing Direction at the Local Level (1997)
Gostick C, Davies B, Lawson R, Salter C
Arena
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Resources, Needs and Outcomes in Community-Based Care (1990)
Davies B, Bebbington A, Charnley H
Ashgate
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Efficiency-Improving Innovations in the Social Care of the Elderly (1989)
Ferlie E, Challis D, Davies B
Ashgate
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Helpers in Case-Managed Community Care (1989)
Qureshi H, Challis D, Davies B
Ashgate
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Case Management in Community Care (1986)
Challis D, Davies B
Ashgate
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Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care (1986)
Davies B, Challis D
Ashgate
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Old People's Homes and the Production of Welfare (1981)
Davies B, Knapp M
Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Variations in Children's Services Amongst British Urban Authorities: A Causal Analysis (1972)
Davies B, Barton A, MacMillan I
Bell
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Social Needs and Resources in Local Services: A Study of Variations in Provision of Social Services between Local Authority Areas (1968)
Davies B
Joseph Rowntree
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Community Care: New Agendas and Challenges from the UK and Overseas (1994)
Challis D, Davies B, Traske K
Ashgate
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The Production of Welfare Approach: Evidence and Argument from the PSSRU (1988)
Davies B, Knapp M
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Delivering effective social/long-term care to older people (2006)
Davies B
Cambridge University Press
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How care management arrangements affect outcomes (2001)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
British Society of Gerontology
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The interface between informal and formal care of older people now and over the next 20 years. Paper presented at Health Trends Review. Proceedings of a Conference chaired by Professor Sir Michael Peckham, School of Public Policy, university College London and Dr Melanie Lee, Director of Research and Development, Celltech Group plc, Barbican Centre, London, 18-19 October 2001 (2001)
Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
HM Treasury
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