Unmet need for disability services: effectiveness of funding and remaining shortfalls
Australian governments committed $519 million additional funding to disability services over the two years 2000-01 and 2001-02, in recognition of unmet needs in the community.This publication reports the findings of a study the AIHW was commissioned to undertake on the effectiveness of this funding, particularly in providing additional services and on the remaining level of unmet need in the community.
ISSN 1444 3589; ISBN 978 1 74024 196 0; Cat. no. DIS 26; 12pp.; OUT OF PRINT
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Publication table of contents
- Work carried out
- The unmet need funding
- Some challenges
- Effectiveness of the unmet need funding
- Survey of jurisdictions
- CSDA Minimum Data Set (MDS) analysis
- Qualitative evidence of the benefits of the new services
- Ageing carers
- Effectiveness: other issues raised
- Remaining unmet need for specific services
- Other evidence on the need for respite
- Further evidence: urgency of criteria and under-reporting in registers
- Pressures at the program boundaries
- Qualitative evidence of unmet needs
- Approaches to costing remaining unmet need
Recommended citation
AIHW 2002. Unmet need for disability services: effectiveness of funding and remaining shortfalls. Disability data briefing no. 22. Cat. no. DIS 26. Canberra: AIHW.