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Health Governance in Europe
Issues, Challenges, and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States.
The authors explore the dynamic and...
by J. A. Lunn
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
The Health of Staff in Hospitals aims to provide some help and guidance to nurses, doctors and hospital administrators who are concerned with improving or creating staff health departments. It is intended to indicate the general nature of the problems which need to be solved, and some ways in which...
Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes
Lessons from India
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social,...
Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare Policy
Redrawing the Patient as Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Although the last two decades have seen the healthcare systems of most developed countries face pressure for major reform, the impact of this reform on the relationship between empowerment, consumerism and citizen’s rights has received limited research attention. Globalisation, Markets and Healthcare...
Evaluating Family Programs
Current Issues in Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The diverse composition of American families and changing ways of raising our children have become subjects of intense scrutiny by researchers and policymakers in recent years. Shifting demographics and work patterns, growing numbers of women in the work force, teenage pregnancy, single-parent families,...
Policy Transformation in Canada
Is the Past Prologue?
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising...
The Risk of a Lifetime
How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Having children is probably as old as the first successful organism. It is often done thoughtlessly. This book is an argument for giving procreating some serious thought, and a theory of how, when, and why procreation may be permissible. Rivka Weinberg begins with an analysis of the kind of act procreativity...
State Politics and the Affordable Care Act
Choices and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since President Trump's election into office, the ACA has stayed in the headlines. Trump has continued to call for the replacement and repeal of...
Le politiche sociali del futuro
Appunti di un assistente sociale nell'epoca della digitalizzazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 24, 2017
«Fare lavoro di servizio oggi significa confrontarsi con bisogni individuali che cambiano continuamente in rapporto alle profonde trasformazioni socio-demografiche in corso.
La competenza dell’assistente sociale è particolarmente adatta a interagire con queste situazioni, perché conosce gli assetti...
Teeth
The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
A debut in the tradition of Mary Roach by a prize-winning journalist: Mary Otto is the leading U.S. journalist covering oral health and dentistry, has won major industry awards, and is the recipient of national fellowships to support her work.
Opportunities: Dental care access burst onto the...
Inventing the Feeble Mind
A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness,...
The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon
The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This book examines the unfolding of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the spillover of the Syrian civil war in Lebanon and against the background of Lebanon–Syria relations and Lebanon’s socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic conditions. It surveys Lebanon’s response plans to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to address the varying roles of public officials who fulfill their tasks while interacting with the public. These roles include...
Organization Practice
A Guide to Understanding Human Service Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Human service organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their programs work. Organization Practice, Second Edition helps students and professionals in human services and nonprofit management understand complex behaviors in organizations. This new edition provides a new, practical...