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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 564
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998-08-20
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 0195121929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term "adversity" is used to describe exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances. It occurs in extreme situations such as prolonged combat or natural disasters, both of which affect whole groups or communities of people simultaneously. It is also observed in more individually targeted events, such as child abuse, bereavement, rape, physical illness, marital separation or divorce, unemployment, and homelessness. This volume brings together contributions from leading investigators in the field. They review and analyze research on the nature of adversity and its relationship to major types of psychopathology including schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism and other substance use disorders, antisocial personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and nonspecific distress. Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology is the only book to offer such a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the role of psychosocial stress in mental disorders. It will be welcomed by psychiatrists: psychologists, especially clinical, health and social; public health researchers, especially epidemiologists; and social scientists, especially sociologists.
Author: Qin Gao
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0190218134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Background, inception, and development -- Thresholds, financing, and beneficiaries -- Targeting performance -- Anti-poverty effectiveness -- From welfare to work -- Family expenditures and human capital investment -- Social participation and subjective well-being -- What next? : policy solutions and research directions -- References -- Acknowledgements
Author: Benjamin C. Amick
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780195085068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do some families create more healthful environments for their children? How do we explain the health status differences between men and women, blacks and whites, and different communities or cultures? How is stress generated in the workplace? What accounts for the persistent social class differences in mortality rates? Why do societies experience higher rates of mortality after economic recession? Such fundamental questions about the social determinants of health are discussed in depth in this wide-ranging and authoritative book. Well-known contributors from North America and Europe assess the evidence for the diverse ways by which society influences health and provide conceptual frameworks for understanding these relationships. The book opens with a broad review of research on the social environment's contribution to health status and then addresses particular social factors: the family, the community, race, gender, class, the economy, the workplace and culture. The concluding two chapters examine the contribution of medicine to the improved health of Americans and recast the health care policy debate in a broad social policy context.
Author: Wayne Vroman
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0307794695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson persuasively argues that problems endemic to America's inner cities--from fatherless households to drugs and violent crime--stem directly from the disappearance of blue-collar jobs in the wake of a globalized economy. Wilson's achievement is to portray this crisis as one that affects all Americans, and to propose solutions whose benefits would be felt across our society. At a time when welfare is ending and our country's racial dialectic is more strained than ever, When Work Disappears is a sane, courageous, and desperately important work. "Wilson is the keenest liberal analyst of the most perplexing of all American problems...[This book is] more ambitious and more accessible than anything he has done before." --The New Yorker
Author: Jeff GROGGER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0674037960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
Author: Klammer, Ute
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-12-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1447349164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy. Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven different countries and demonstrate how social work practitioners can become political actors, while also encouraging policy makers to become aware of the potential of social work for the social policy-making process.
Author: Leonard Fagin
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy on the social implications of unemployment and its impact on family welfare in the UK - includes a twenty family case study of the psychological aspects of labour force participation as a source of creativity, income, etc.; discusses health problems related to unemployment; includes interview questionnaires. References.
