Caring: the Neglected Health Outcome? or Input?
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In most forms of evaluation of health care--and it is certainly true of economic evaluation--and is considering the outcomes of such care, caring tends to be omitted, or simply forgotten. It is often the case that little more than lip service is paid to the inclusion of caring as an input. This paper takes a closer look at caring, the neglected outcome of health care. The perspective starts from that of economics but other disciplines are examined briefly along the way to determine whether they deal better with caring than does the dismal science of economics. It is concluded that there is a need for greater consideration of caring as both an outcome and an input in evaluation of health care and that in the specific context of economic evaluation, when considering caring, economists might usefully look to other disciplines to broaden and deepen their conceptualisation of both benefits and costs in their economic evaluation studies.
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