Unmet
Need of Disability Services: Effectiveness of Funding and Remaining
Shortfalls
Full publication (2.51M PDF)
- Preliminary material (290K PDF)
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- List of tables, appendix tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Summary (separate 165K PDF;
HTML & pre-publication version 172K PDF)
- Sections
- Introduction (177K PDF)
- Project objectives and report outline
- The Commonwealth/State Disability Agreement (CSDA)
- Bilateral Agreements and unmet need funding
- A statistical picture of the CSDA, its funding and its
clients
- Framework and method (217K PDF)
- Concepts and definitions for the study
- Relating key data sources to the key concepts
- Study method
- The use of the unmet need funding (415K PDF)
- Introduction
- Data sources and limitations
- The quantum of funds
- Application of the unmet need funding
- Ongoing effect of unmet need funding
- Service delivery from the unmet need funding
- Costing and funding of services
- Unmet need funding cost experience
- Unmet need funding: comparisons with past estimates
- Summary: use of the funding
- Effectiveness of unmet need funding (294K PDF)
- Scope and outline of the chapter
- Additional services: national trends from the CSDA MDS
- In what other ways has the level of unmet need been reduced?
- Effectiveness of new funding: views from the peak
discussions
- Other indications of effectiveness
- Effectiveness: summary and discussion
- Jurisdiction methods for managing 'need' (228K PDF)
- Introduction
- How jurisdictions manage 'need'
- What do these processes tell us about need and unmet need?
- Summary and discussion
- Population estimates of need (249K PDF)
- Approach and sources for population data analysis
- Accommodation and respite services: estimates of unmet need
- Community access services: estimates of unmet need
- Disability employment services: baseline estimates of unmet
need
- Estimates of support needs of ageing primary carers
- Shortfalls - remaining unmet needs (277K PDF)
- The approach in this chapter.
- Consolidating the estimates of unmet need
- Unmet needs: views from peak discussions
- Unmet needs: literature and other sources
- Evidence from analysis of 'other services' data
- Conclusions on remaining unmet need for specific services
- Approaches to costing remaining unmet need (152K PDF)
- Overview of information
- The 'building block' approach to costing unmet need in
2001
- Considering differing policy scenarios
- The possibility of adopting a population 'benchmark'
approach
- Further developing the jurisdictional registers
- End matter
- References (90K PDF)
- Appendixes
Appendix
tables (127K PDF)
- Summary of AIHW 1997 demand study (158K PDF)
- --- (202K PDF)
- Questionnaire to inform the CSDA 'Needs Study'
(States and Territories)
- Questionnaire to inform the CSDA 'Needs Study'
(Commonwealth)
- Jurisdiction staff.
- Agenda and program for discussions on the need for CSDA
disability services
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