The Economic Return to Preventive Social Work
J.A. Schofield
(Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Canada.)
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Abstract
Considerable effort has been made in estimating the economic return to various kinds of preventive exercise in the human resources field. The return to prevention or control of selected diseases has been estimated, as has the return to investment in birth control. Attempts have also been made to assess the pay‐off from programmes designed to prevent homelessness, extended redundancy, crime, and criminal recidivism.
Citation
Schofield, J.A. (1976), "The Economic Return to Preventive Social Work", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013798
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1976, MCB UP Limited