Social Services category: 2206 books
by Asian Development Bank, The World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Asia and the Pacific has a significant rise in migration: about one in three migrants comes from Asia according to the United Nations. Currently, over 80 million people from Asia and the Pacific live and work outside of their countries of origin. Migration and remittances have both positive and negative...
Health Justice Now
Single Payer and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
"The best concise explanation of why the United States needs single-payer health care — and needs to widen the definition of health care itself."— The Washington Post
Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It’s cheaper than our current...
by Dr. Nicholas La Bianca
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
L I F E : Its Problems and Some of Its Unanswerable Questions Most of the people go through life trying to cope with the immediate physical needs that the everyday life presents and very rarely try to explain to themselves in a rational way the reason for being on this earth. Religion for most of...
Building an Opportunity Society
A Realistic Alternative to an Entitlement State
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Twenty-first-century US policymakers face a great challenge: How can federal government help more people achieve the American dream? Specifically, how can we provide greater opportunities for less-prosperous individuals, enabling them to succeed through hard work, on their merits, and take increased...
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism
Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism is the first collection of its kind to explore the contemporary terrain of healthcare in Guatemala through reflective ethnography. This volume offers a nuanced portrait of the effects of healthcare privatization for indigenous Maya people, who have historically...
Troubled Youth, Troubled Families
Understanding Families at Risk for Adolescent Maltreatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The 1970s witnessed a growing concern and awareness regarding child abuse, an awareness which gradually extended to include the maltreatment of adolescents. In the 1980s a number of intervention projects dealing with this particular problem were started. Troubled Youth, Troubled Families is one of the first full-length reports to deal with adolescent abuse.
Adoption, Race, and Identity
From Infancy to Young Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Adoption, Race, and Identity is a long-range study of the impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families. Initiated in 1972, it was continued in 1979, 1984, and 1991. Cumulatively, these four phases trace the subjects from early childhood into young adulthood. This is the only...
by Ramesh Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Safety Net That Works
Improving Federal Programs for Low-Income Americans
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things...
Politics Of The Mind
Marxism and Mental Distress
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, depression currently affects 350 million people. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress looks at the link between the economic and political system under which we...
Inside Indian Schools
The Enigma of Equity and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get. In this collection of essays the author explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy....
Child Abuse in the Deep South
Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The recognition of child abuse as a troubling social and public health problem along with the documentation required by mandatory reporting laws have made possible the epidemiological investigation of risk factors association with child abuse. Child Abuse in the Deep South is a study of physical and...
Post-Communist Welfare States in European Context
Patterns of Welfare Policies in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
This is the first book providing a comprehensive and systematic empirical assessment of the post-communist welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of their Western European counterparts. Based on the classical typologies of welfare regimes, the study systematically compares 26 European...
Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault
Perspectives on What Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black interview practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States to provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Enhancing existing research with the shared wisdom of the nation's prevention...