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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Evaluation is a collection of papers that provides a broad range of ideas, methods, and techniques in program administration and evaluation in the field of mental health.
The book is organized into 2 sections. Part I, consisting of 8 chapters, presents the necessary...
Getting India Back on Track
An Action Agenda for Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In order to reverse this trend, New Delhi must seriously reflect on its policy choices across a wide range of issue areas.
Getting India Back on Track broadly coincides...
Uncle Sam's Plantation
How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't working.
The solution, asserts Star Parker,...
Women's Global Health
Norms and State Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
For many women around the globe, health has become the central intersection of the personal and the political; women's bodies are the arena for policy debates about population, poverty, reproduction, and morality. Women's Global Health: Norms and State Policies is a comprehensive assessment of health...
Should We Tax the Rich More?
The Munk Debate on Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2013
As middle-class incomes stagnate in advanced economies while the rich experience record income gains, the eleventh semi-annual Munk Debate pits wealth redistribution supporters Paul Krugman and George Papandreou against Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer to debate taxation — should the rich pay more?
For...
by Jens Borchert, Stephan Lessenich
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically,...
American Hunger
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications...
by Richard C. Box
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals. A discussion of these very tenets and their relevance to...
by Butch Biendara
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014
This book covers answers to seven major problems that effect millions of people around the world.Each topic: Global Warming, High-Speed transit, Welfare poverty, Renewable Clean Energy, Coastline Stabilization, Taxing Calories, and Economic Democracy, is addressed separately.Some of the issues will take...
Strengthening Public Pension Systems in Asia
Proceedings of the 2015 ADB–PPI Conference on Public Pension Systems in Asia, Focus: Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Viet Nam, and Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Asia’s population is aging and old-age income support and social services is an emerging challenge. Strengthening pension systems in Asia is therefore a key concern for inclusive development in the region. In many Asian countries, pension systems are still inadequate in terms of both coverage and...
Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry
Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre, Toronto, Canada, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Evaluation of Quality of Care in Psychiatry covers the proceedings of the symposium on Quality of Care in Psychiatry. The book discusses topics relevant to the evaluation of the quality of psychiatric care.
Comprised of nine chapters, the book first tackles quality assurance in health care, and then...
by Allyson Pollock
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2020
In 2010, weeks after the election, the Coalition government started to dismantle the National Health Service, in an ideological assault disguised as austerity. Since its foundation in 1946, the NHS has been at the center of the welfare state, but now it lies in tatters, the result of costcutting and...
Caring for Abused and Neglected Children
Making the Right Decisions for Reunification or Long-Term Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The decision whether or not to reunify a child in care with their birth family is one of the most serious taken by children's services, and often involves considerable risk.
This book examines the long-term consequences of this decision for children who entered public care for abuse or neglect....
Put Away
Institutions for the Mentally Retarded
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This classic book allows its readers for the first time to comprehend the size, organization, staffing and operation of a national system of hospitals and residential services for the subnormal. It also allows for the first time, reliable estimates to be given of the scale and severity of certain...