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Current environmental conditions such as limited financial resources, cost containment, rising consumer expectation, and perhaps more stringent regulation of available public monies to support social services signal declining opportunities for survival of autonomous, freestanding community agencies and the development of newer collaborative forms of organization. In order to preserve maximum input of need information among their professional and community environments, community agencies will require improved procedures for processing multisource assesments. A methodology is presented for weighting and pooling of multisource need information geared for use by planners and decisionmakers of performance oriented multi-agency health care systems.
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Rydman, Robert J., M.S., M.P.A.—is Organization and Evaluation Consultant to the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities and a predoctorial fellow with the Psycho-Social Epidemiology Program, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center.
Rowitz, Louis, Ph.D.—is Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois Medical Center and Research Scientist at the Illinois Institute for Developmental Disabilities, Chicago. Dr. Rowitz and Mr. Rydman have been frequent contributors to the Journal.
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Rydman, R.J., Rowitz, L. Planning within multi-agency context. Journal of Mental Health Administration 10, 39–42 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02830912
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