Social Services category: 2206 books
Aging Across the United States
Matching Needs to States’ Differing Opportunities and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Older Americans experience stages of aging with distinct priorities. For younger retirees, climate can be most important; for older retirees, quality of health care. Various states support these and other priorities to sharply different degrees. While many Americans know which states offer mild climates...
Family Violence in the United States
Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Rich in scholarly references and case materials, Family Violence in the United States: Defining, Understanding, and Combating Abuse, Second Edition by Denise A. Hines, Kathleen Malley-Morrison, and Leila B. Dutton is a thought-provoking book that encourages students to question assumptions, evaluate...
by Cristina Bottone
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Il presente testo propone una rappresentazione delle ragioni di una critica evolutiva sulla complessa interazione tra morale soggettiva, etica, deontologia professionale e responsabilità giuridiche nell’odierno esercizio della professione di Assistente sociale.
Esso evidenzia come la dottrina in...
The Wages of War
When America's Soldiers Came Home: From Valley Forge to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A disturbing chronicle of the US government’s mistreatment of American soldiers and veterans throughout history, with a new introduction by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Time and time again, the sacrifices made by veterans and their families have been repaid with scorn, discrimination, lack of health...
by James Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models,...
Attaining Access for All
Pro-Poor Policy and Regulation for Water and Energy Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Universal access to safe, reliable energy is a necessary condition for providing the poor with safe water and sanitation, for maintaining adequate standards of living, and for achieving any of the Millennium Development Goals. The Asian Development Bank recognizes the importance of electricity and...
Wanted on Warrants
The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Since 2005, the Fugitive Safe Surrender (FSS) program has been implemented in more than twenty cities around the country. Tens of thousands of individuals with active warrants for their arrest have voluntarily surrendered to law enforcement in a church or other neutral setting. The sites are transformed...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
This comprehensive review of Turkey's health care system shows that health status has improved rapidly in Turkey in recent decades, partly as a result of higher health spending. It describes the introduction of an ambitious Health Transformation Programme in 2003 which brought universal health insurance...
Health at a Glance 2009
OECD Indicators
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2009
This fifth edition of Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data on different aspects of the performance of health systems in OECD countries. It provides striking evidence of large variations across countries in the costs, activities and results of health systems. Key indicators provide...
The BBC
Myth of a Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The BBC: the mouthpiece of the Establishment?
The BBC is one of the most important institutions in Britain; it is also one of the most misunderstood. Despite its claim to be independent and impartial, and the constant accusations of a liberal bias, the BBC has always sided with the elite. As...
Childbirth in the Global Village
Implications for Midwifery Education and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Is the experience of childbirth becoming 'globalised'?
Is the encroachment of the western medical model dehumanising a profoundly human experience?
If so, what can midwives and midwife educators do about it?
These are the questions at the heart of Childbirth in the Global Village which highlights...
by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients...
Aboriginal Child Welfare, Self-Government and the Rights of Indigenous Children
Protecting the Vulnerable Under International Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This volume addresses the contentious and topical issue of aboriginal self-government over child welfare. Using case studies from Australia and Canada, it discusses aboriginal child welfare in historical and comparative perspectives and critically examines recent legal reforms and changes in the design,...
Building Better Policies
The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Governments around the world face ongoing pressures from citizens to provide more and better services, and to do this while restraining taxation levels. This provides the context for government efforts to ensure their policies and programs are as effective, and as efficient, as possible. An emphasis...