Der Band thematisiert die vielfaltigen Einflusse partizipatorischer offentlicher Politik und privater Initiativen einerseits, sowie familialer und anderer sozialer Netzwerke andererseits auf die reale Gestaltung und den Erfolg von Gesundheitsfursorge. Schwerpunkte dabei sind zunachst Partizipationspraktiken von Familie, Nachbarschaft und freiwilligen Vereinigungen in Zivilgesellschaft und offentlicher Politik. Zweitens werden Forschungsbeitrage aus Deutschland, Brasilien und Portugal zur Verschrankung von Familie, sozialen Netzwerken, Gesundheit und Gesundheitspolitik zur Diskussion gestellt.
Das Buch focusiert anhand einer interdisziplinären Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis den ländlichen Lebensraum als Lebensraum im Alter. Neben einer Übersicht über die gesundheitliche und soziale Versorgung werden Ansätze einer vorausschauenden Alten- und Gesundheitspolitik aufgezeigt. Betrachtet werden der pflegerische Bereich, Selbsthilfestrukturen, kulturelle Angebote und neue Wohn- und Kommunikationsformen.
Networks in the Global Village examines how people live through personal communities: their networks of friends, neighbors, relatives, and coworkers. It is the first book to compare the communities of people around the world. Major social differences between and within the First, Second, and Third Worlds affect the opportunities and insecurities w
This volume assembles a wide range of perspectives on populism and the media, bringing together various disciplinary and theoretical approaches, authors and examples from different continents and a wide range of topical issues. The chapters discuss the contexts of populist communication, communication by populist actors, different types of populist messages (populist communication in traditional and new media, populist criticism of the media, populist discourses related to different topics, etc.), the effects and consequences of populist communication, populist media policy and anti-populist discourses. The contributions synthesise existing research on this subject, propose new approaches to it or present new findings on the relationship between populism and the media.
It is a societal given, borne out by the facts: the higher one's social status, the better health, and the longer life expectancy. As the situation persists, an important question demands attention, namely whether health care systems contribute to the inequity. Drawing accurate conclusions requires workable theory, reliable data collection instruments, and valid analytical methods. Using one representative country to typify the industrial world, Health Care Utilization in Germany studies its subject in terms of social determinants. This singular volume offers systematic guidelines for research into health care access based on an acclaimed behavioral model of care utilization. Contributors focus on specific social factors, medical conditions, and sectors of care to examine why differences exist, their implications, and how care providers can better match supply with demand. And many of the book's topics, such as obesity, dementia, preventive services, and immigrant health, are of global interest. Included in the coverage: Updating a classic behavioral model of health care access. Insights from qualitative research. The problem of repeated surveys: how comparable are their results? Gender and utilization of health care. Care utilization by dementia patients living at home. Social determinants of utilization of psychotherapy in Germany. A volume certain to spark discussion among researchers across the community, the findings and methods in Health Care Utilization in Germany will be analyzed by health psychologists, public health professionals, and epidemiologists.
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices. This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
41 Jahre nach Gründung der Bundesrepublik und im Übergang zu einem vereinten Deutschland ziehen die Autoren, durchweg bekannte Politik- und Sozialwissenschaftler, in zentralen Bereichen der "alten" bundesrepublikanischen Politik Bilanz und versuchen, Perspektiven aufzuzeigen. Eine wichtige Frage hierbei ist, ob Regierungswechsel einen nachhaltigen Einfluß auf die Entwicklung sowohl des Regierungssystems insgesamt als auch auf die einzelnen Politikfelder ausüben konnten oder ob nicht Kontinuität, d. h. ein Prozeß "kumulativer" Politikentwicklung, prägend war.
Health at a Glance compares key indicators for population health and health system performance across OECD members, candidate and partner countries. It highlights how countries differ in terms of the health status and health-seeking behaviour of their citizens; access to and quality of health care; and the resources available for health. Analysis is based on the latest comparable data across 80 indicators, with data coming from official national statistics, unless otherwise stated.
In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords by Agnès HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)
