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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The Social Significance of Health Promotion sets health promotion in its historical context and delineates its contemporary role. It explores the potential of health promotion to impact on our social values and sense of community.
The book begins by exploring the historical roots of health...
Effective Social Work with Children, Young People and Families
Putting Systems Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
This book looks at the changing context of children and young people's services heralded by the structural, organisational and funding changes put forward in Eileen Munro's Review of Child Protection. It is strongly grounded in research and theory, and gives specific consideration to how systems theory...
It’s Basic Income
The global debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian ideal that distracts from more practical and cost-effective...
Migrant Care Workers
Searching for New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In this beautifully-argued book, Karen Cristensen and Ingrid Guldvik provide a comparatively-based insight to the historical context for public care work and show how migration policies, general welfare and long-term care policies (including the cash-for-care schemes) as well as cultural differences...
International Social Work
Issues, Strategies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
International Social Work: Issues, Strategies, and Programs, Second Edition draws together the practice wisdom emerging within the broad scope of international social work practice and its role in contributing to the international community's efforts in combating the major global social problems of...
An equal start?
Providing quality early education and care for disadvantaged children
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Early education and care has become a central policy area in many countries. As services expand rapidly, it is crucial to examine whether children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive provision of the highest possible quality. In this original, topical book, leading experts from eight countries...
by Lynne Friedli, Rachel Jenkins, Andrew McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2005
Mental illness causes a substantial health burden in all regions of the world, and is a major contributor to world poverty.
Developing a National Mental Health Policy is designed to support those involved in developing locally appropriate mental health policies, emphasising the crucial role of primary...
Une couverture sanitaire universelle pour un développement durable inclusif
Une synthèse de 11 études de cas pays
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
La CSU a pour objectifs de s’assurer que tous peuvent avoir accès à des services de santé de qualité, de préserver l’ensemble des individus contre les risques à la santé publique et de protéger toutes les personnes contre l’appauvrissement attribuable à la maladie. Des pays aussi...
Extending Canadian Health Insurance
Options for Pharmacare and Denticare
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
This study explores the policy options a provincial government might consider in extending health care coverage to the purchase of prescription drugs and dental care. It examines the major public policy objectives involved, such as spreading risk, redistributing wealth, and reducing the barriers to...
Rehabilitation for the Unwanted
Patients and Their Caretakers
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book is a study detailing what happens to people and what life is like in a rehabilitation program. The program discussed is embedded in an institution, called ""Farewell Hospital"" by the authors, that was designed to fill a demand for facilities for those judged unable to...
by Philip Cotterell, Jason Lim, Zemikael Habte-Mariam
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart of user involvement.
This book provides an accessible account of the latest research findings regarding user involvement on three levels: the delivery...
Successful Group Care
Explorations in the Powerful Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Edited by one of the leading authorities in international child care, this sourcebook provides valuable insights from international experiments in group child care. The selections, written by distinguished international child care experts, explore a broad range of successful group care settings in...
New Immigrants, Changing Communities
Best Practices for a Better America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
This book is a product of research stemming from a multiyear project conducted by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak and Micah N. Bump for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. The project studied immigration integration in areas that had no recent experience with foreign-born...
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds
Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
As public services budgets are cut, the ‘Payment by Results’ (or Pay for Success) model has become a popular choice in public sector commissioning. Social Impact Bonds are a variant of Payment by Results also promoted by proponents of social (or impact) investing. But how effective are these approaches?...