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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
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Community Care for Frail Older People. Analysis Using the 1998/9 General Household Survey (2001)
Pickard L, Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Davies B, Darton R
University of Stirling
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Financing Long-Term Care for Elderly People (2000)
Wittenberg R, Comas-Herrera A, Pickard L, Darton R, Davies B
School of Health Care
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Choices! Choices! Techniques for analysing the dilemmas of balancing the interests of stakeholders in community care. (2000)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
School of Health Care
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Optimising modal choice: what would be the consequences of cost minimisation? (2000)
Fernández J-L, Davies B
School of Health Care
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Empowerment in post-reform community care in England and Wales (1999)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
Greenwood Publishing
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The economics of community care case management: arguments from British research (1997)
Davies B
World Congress of Gerontology
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Targeting services in UK community care: are the post-reform patterns more defensible? (1997)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
World Congress of Gerontology
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Impact of British community care reforms on outcomes incidence, outcome costs and service productivities (1997)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
World Congress of Gerontology
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How much case management should users have: an economic/econometric analysis based on British experiments (1997)
Davies B, Chesterman J, Fernández J-L
World Congress of Gerontology
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Community care and long-term care of elderly people: targeting argument and policy in Australia and the UK (1997)
Howe A, Davies B
World Congress of Gerontology
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Alternative strategies for financing community and long-term care: the British debate (1997)
Wittenberg R, Davies B, Pickard L
World Congress of Gerontology
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Case management and case coordination in the United Kingdom (1997)
Davies B
World Congress of Gerontology
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Forecasting long-term care needs and costs in the UK, Sweden and the Netherlands (1997)
Davies B
World Congress of Gerontology
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The impact of UK community care reforms on equity and efficiency in targeting services for the elderly (1997)
Davies B, Fernández J-L
Systems Sciences in Health-Social Services for the Elderly and the Disabled (SYSTED)
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Will similar case management arrangements achieve similar costs of outcomes? Within- and between-project learning in the British Kent Community Care Project and its replications (1996)
Davies B, Chesterman J
American Public Health Association
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Shelter with care and the community care reforms (1996)
Davies B
Macmillan
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Production of welfare (1995)
Davies B
Springer Publishing
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The reform of community and long-term care of elderly persons: an international perspective (1995)
Davies B
Avebury
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Budget-devolved care management in two routine programmes. Have they improved outcomes? (1994)
Chesterman J, Challis D, Davies B
Ashgate
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Capitated/premium financed risk-bearing managed care models for community and health care: are they of relevance to the UK? (1994)
Davies B
Helen Hamlyn Foundation
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