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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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Rational funding policies (1989)
Davies B
ASI
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Costs needs and outcomes in residential and community-based care of the elderly: towards the quantification of optimal targeting criteria (1989)
Davies B
Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique
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The community care approach and the development of institutions intermediate between formal and informal care (1988)
Davies B
European Centre for Social Work Training and Research
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Costs and residential social care (1988)
Davies B, Knapp M
HMSO
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The new managerialist argument and the supply and financing of care (1987)
Davies B
Croom Helm
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Epilogue: past achievements and future promise (1986)
Davies B
HMSO
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A more comprehensive approach to care of the elderly: the community care scheme (1986)
Challis D, Davies B
Columbia University Press
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American experiments to substitute homes for institutional long-term care: policy logic and evaluation methodology (1986)
Davies B
Croom Helm
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A more comprehensive approach to care of the elderly: the community care approach (1985)
Challis D, Davies B
Macmillan
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Innovation in the care of the elderly: the role of joint finance (1985)
Ferlie E, Challis D, Davies B
Croom Helm
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Cost effectiveness evaluation in social care (1984)
Challis D, Knapp M, Davies B
University of Aberdeen
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Community care schemes: a development in the home care of the frail elderly (1984)
Challis D, Davies B
Pitman
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Motivation and rewards of helpers in Kent Community Care Scheme (1983)
Qureshi H, Challis D, Davies B
Volunteer Centre
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Patterns of social service provision for the elderly: variations between local authorities of England in 1975/76, 1977/78 and 1979/80 (1982)
Bebbington A, Davies B
John Wiley
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Community care projects: costs and effectiveness (1981)
Challis D, Davies B
INSERM
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The community care project (1981)
Challis D, Davies B
INSERM
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A production relations evaluation of the meeting of needs in the community care project (1981)
Davies B, Challis D
Heinemann
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Strategic goals and piecemeal innovations: adjusting to the new balance of needs and resources (1981)
Davies B
Policy Studies Institute
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Policy options for charges and means tests (1980)
Davies B
Macmillan
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Welfare needs and local autonomy (1977)
Davies B
Penguin
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