Social Security category: 3077 books
Welfare, Inequality and Social Citizenship
Deprivation and Affluence in Austerity Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Exploring the lived realities of both poverty and prosperity in the UK, this book examines the material and symbolic significance of welfare austerity and its implications for social citizenship and inequality. The book offers a rare and vivid insight into the everyday lives, attitudes and behaviours...
Absent Citizens
Disability Politics and Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
Disability exists in the shadows of public awareness and at the periphery of policy making. People with disabilities are, in many respects, missing from the theories and practices of social rights, political participation, employment, and civic membership. Absent Citizens brings to light these chronic...
Impact Investors in Asia
Characteristics and Preferences for Investing in Social Enterprises in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This report provides insights to investors keen to invest in the region, financial intermediaries that advise social enterprises (SEs) on capital raising, and developers of platforms seeking to connect SEs in the region with impact investors. Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), an SE based in Singapore,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Community Care for Health Professionals presents information needed by health professionals for an effective transitioning from institutional to community-based care. The book is comprised 12 chapters that are organized into two parts.
The first part covers social policy and various issues, including...
Governing diversity
Migrant Integration and Multiculturalism in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
During the 2000s, the European Union has witnessed a significant change in terms of integration policies for immigrants.
This book intends to address the relationship between, on the one hand, cultural diversity resulting from migration, and, on the other hand, social cohesion and social justice...
by
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...
Summary & Analysis of AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order | A Guide to the Book by Kai-Fu Lee Kindle Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, please paste this link in your browser: https://amzn.to/2CQnCmy
In his bestselling book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order,world-renowned...
Wandering Workers
Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian Labor Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia—the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected...
The Sociology of Terrorism
People, Places and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern, local and global, and social processes for a range of individuals, groups and societies. Individual behaviour and dispositions are embedded within these...
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...
From Here and There
Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
When immigrants to the United States need to learn English, receive health services, open a bank account or get a work certification, US state and local governments or non-profit organizations usually assist as part of the process of supporting immigrant integration and, ultimately, citizenship. But...
Searching for Effective Poverty Interventions
Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Conditional cash transfer (CCT), which was initiated in 2007, is becoming a centerpiece of the social protection system in the Philippines. This note reviews economic rationales for transferring a cash grant to the poor contingent on their certain behavior, major challenges in designing a CCT program,...
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...
by J. K. Cruickshank, D. G. Beevers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Ethnic Factors in Health and Disease discusses ethnicity from a medical perspective. The book is comprised of 35 chapters that are grouped into four sections.
The text first covers the background issues concerning the relationship between ethnicity and health. The next part deals with topics related...