ABSTRACT

Partnership' between public and private groups seeks 'to develop community infrastructure for assessment, planning, and evaluation of community health needs and to integrate health and human services into collaborative service networks'. The 'regular' producer of education, health or infrastructure services is most frequently a government agency. The chapter uses the conceptual tools of conventional production theory, light has been shed on co-production, in the manner of Ostrom. It presents the theory of co-production to help shed light on the optimal input combination from citizens and government for providing the multiple outputs of treatment, care and support for individuals with mental illnesses and disabilities. The chapter suggests an approach to the evaluation of deinstitutionalisation. Deinstitutionalisation is a movement that has had critical implications for peoples' lives. It is a piece of jargon that refers to a sector that changed its technology drastically without exploring the empirical relationships between the level of the output, and the quantity and availability of the inputs.