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Author : Janice Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015051565359
Author : Janet B. Garner,Thelma C. Christiansen
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social medicine
ISBN : 1604562862
Health care and medicine are dependent upon a close interaction with social sciences and professions in order to effectively treat patients. Athough medicines have becoming more and more targeted in recent times, it is the recovery of the patient which is the true test of the system whether it be in a hospital setting or within a daily societal setting. Such interactions may be psychological or interactions with social organisations essential to phase the patient back into society. This book presents new issues, experiences and research in the field from around the globe.
Author : Marcus Rebick,Ayumi Takenaka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134207800
The Japanese family is shifting in fundamental ways, specifically in terms of attitudes towards family and societal relationships, and also the role of the family in society. Changing Japanese Family explores these significant changes which include an ageing population, delayed marriages, a fallen birth rate, which has fallen below the level needed for replacement, and a decline in three-generational households and family businesses. The authors investigate these changes and the effects of them on Japanese society, whilst also setting the study in the context of wider economic and social changes in Japan. They offer interesting comparisons with international societies, especially with Southern Europe, where similar changes to the family and its role are occuring. This fascinating text is essential reading for those with an enthusiasm in Japanese studies but will also engage those with a concern in Japanese culture and society, as well as appealing to a readership with a wider interest in the sociology of the family.
Author : Mayumi Hayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317319443
Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.
Author : Means, Robin,Morbey, Hazel,Randall Smith
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781861342652
This study reflects a recognition of contributions studies of the post-war 'welfare state' make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. It illuminates concerns about key issues such as rationing care and health and social care divide.
Author : Christine Milligan,David Conradson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781847429063
The appeal of voluntary action as a solution to growing welfare needs in advanced capitalist countries raises important questions about the social impacts and spatial equity of such provision. This book addresses these issues and explores the complex relationship between voluntary action, society and space.
Author : Jonathan Gabe,Michael Calnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134049677
The New Sociology of the Health Service provides a vital new sociological framework for analysing health policy and health care, covering a broad range of key contemporary health services issues. It will be an important read for all students and researchers of medical sociology and health policy.
Author : Misa Izuhara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134119738
Housing, Care and Inheritance draws on the author’s long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, a phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies. If an adult child provides care for their elderly parent, should that person be rewarded? If so, should they inherit their parent’s house or a larger share of the assets? The ‘generational contract’ is often influenced by cultural norms, family traditions, social policy and housing market, so it is negotiated differently in different societies and at different times. Such generational contract is however breaking down as a result of socio-economic and demographic changes. Drawn from the two-part study funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council, Misa Izuhara explores the myth and the changing patterns of the particular exchange of long-term care and housing assets between older parents and their adult children in Britain and Japan. Highly international and comparative in perspectives, this study addresses important sociological as well as policy questions regarding intergenerational relations involving housing wealth, long-term care, and inheritance.
Author : Allyson M. Pollock
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789602074
Universal, comprehensive health care, equally available to all and disconnected from income and the ability to pay, was the goal of the founders of the National Health Service. This book, by one of the NHS's most eloquent and passionate defenders, tells the story of how that ideal has been progressively eroded, and how the clock is being turned back to pre-NHS days, when health care was a commodity, fully available only to those with money. How this has come about-to the point where even the shrinking core of free NHS hospital services is being handed over to private providers at the taxpayers' expense-is still not widely understood, hidden behind slogans like "care in the community," "diversity" and "local ownership." Allyson Pollock demystifies these terms, and in doing so presents a clear and powerful analysis of the transition from a comprehensive and universal service to New Labour's "mixed economy of health care," in which hospitals with foundation status, loosely supervised by an independent regulator, will be run on largely market principles. The NHS remains popular, Pollock argues, precisely because it created the "freedom from fear" that its founders promised, and because its integrated, non-commercial character meant low costs and good medical practice. Restoring these values in today's health service has become an urgent necessity, and this book will be a key resource for everyone wishing to to bring this about.
Author : Robin Means,Sally Richards,Randall Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137073839
This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular attention is paid to partnerships between health and social care, the regulation of social care, direct payments and individual budgets and user/carer empowerment.
Author : Minouche Shafik
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691207643
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.
Author : Jacques Véron,Sophie Pennec,Jacques Légaré
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402059735
In this important and timely book, researchers from different countries compare their experiences and offer contrasting views on the future of social protection. They consider the theoretical aspects of the intergenerational debate, relations between generations within the family, the living standards of elderly people, and the question of social time. For the first time in history, three and sometimes four generations are living at the same time; this book examines the new interactions between family change, labour force participation and population ageing.
Author : Monica Townson,National Advisory Council on Aging (Canada)
Publisher : Conseil consultatif national sur le troisième âge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015038153006
This paper describes what is understood as the social contract for seniors in Canada and looks critically at the key reasons that have been advanced for reviewing it at this time. It examines some of the solutions that have been proposed or implemented in other countries to deal with what some have seen as the crisis of an aging population, particularly in the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Europe, comparing the social contract with seniors in those countries with public policies for seniors in Canada. It traces the probable future direction of this social contract in light of known social, demographic, political and economic trends in Canada. It concludes with an outline of what is the most desirable future for the social contract for seniors in Canada, taking into account trends in health care, income security, employment and social services and describes how this future could be attained.
Author : Jane A. Grant
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461634416
The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact_the rights and obligations of citizenship_as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new social compact in America. Grant proposes a new social compact that would honor the expansion of civil, political, and social rights in America and would integrate these rights within a new civic procedural ethos, clarifying our obligations to each other, future generations, other nations, and other species.
Author : Patrick Huntjens
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030671303
This open access book is a 2022 Nautilus Gold Medal winner in the category "World Cultures' Transformational Growth & Development". It states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, Prof. Dr. Patrick Huntjens, argues that overcoming these existential challenges will require a fundamental shift from our current anthropocentric and economic growth-oriented approach to a more ecocentric and regenerative approach. He advocates for a Natural Social Contract that emphasizes long-term sustainability and the general welfare of both humankind and planet Earth. Achieving this crucial balance calls for an end to unlimited economic growth, overconsumption and over-individualisation for the benefit of ourselves, our planet, and future generations. To this end, sustainability, health, and justice in all social-ecological systems will require systemic innovation and prioritizing a collective effort. The Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation (TSEI) framework presented in this book serves that cause. It helps to diagnose and advance innovation and spur change across sectors, disciplines, and at different levels of governance. Altogether, TSEI identifies intervention points and formulates jointly developed and shared solutions to inform policymakers, administrators, concerned citizens, and professionals dedicated towards a more sustainable, healthy and just society. A wide readership of students, researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in social innovation, transition studies, development studies, social policy, social justice, climate change, environmental studies, political science and economics will find this cutting-edge book particularly useful. “As a sustainability transition researcher, I am truly excited about this book. Two unique aspects of the book are that it considers bigger transformation issues (such as societies’ relationship with nature, purpose and justice) than those studied in transition studies and offers analytical frameworks and methods for taking up the challenge of achieving change on the ground.” - Prof. Dr. René Kemp, United Nations University and Maastricht Sustainability Institute
