Systematic review of economic evaluations of children’s social care interventions

Asmaa El-Banna, Stavros Petrou, Hei Hang Edmund Yiu, Shahd Daher, Donald Forrester, Jonathan Scourfield, David Wilkins, Rhiannon Evans, Ruth Turley and Sarah Wallace

Children and Youth Services Review, 2021, vol. 121, issue C

Abstract: Children’s social care/child welfare services, are under pressure to maximize the value of resource expenditure in meeting the needs of children and young people exposed to risk factors for care entry or residing in care. Economic evaluations can support the decision to adopt, routinize or discontinue an intervention, informing the allocation of limited resources. There is a paucity of economic evaluations in children’s social care, partly because this is an emerging area, hence topic-specific methods are lacking. Prior to the development and recommendation of methods, it is important to systematically synthesize those adopted to highlight challenges that have arisen and guide future research.

Keywords: Economic evaluation; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Child welfare; Systematic review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105864

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