Social Welfare & Social Services

Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given ris...

International media regularly features horrific stories about Chinese orphanages, especially when debating international adoption and human rights....

Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contam...

Social Policy and Change in East Asia is a collection of essays from a group of indigenous East Asian social policy researchers who met bi-annually...

The book undertakes a critical examination of health service development in India and provides an explanation of its underdevelopment. It analyzes ...

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The rehabilitation of Confucian tradition raised new challenges to Chinese feminist thinkers. Can a Confucian ideal of reciprocity help women reali...

Zukünftig werden immer mehr ältere Menschen eine medizinische und pflegerische Unterstützung benötigen und gleichzeitig werden immer weniger Mensc...

Das Lehrbuch bietet einen kompakten Überblick von Wissen über Adressat_innen der Sozialen Arbeit. Unterschiedliche Konzepte werden vorgestellt und ...

Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Gree...

China's increasing role as an education donor in Africa, and the significance of this both economically and politically. Why does China run one o...

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy is a comprehensive reference guide to the practice of philanthropy across twenty-six nations and regio...

This book offers an analysis of European capitalist welfare societies, centering on the questions of sustainability and the financing of social rig...

Social Work for Sociologists introduces important frameworks, concepts, models, and skills from social work that will help sociologists as they pla...

Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges. This book analyses three professi...

This book offers a critical analysis on employing a universal understanding of poverty and suggests ways forward for poverty reduction for developi...

This book aims to explore the nature and extent of the 'care deficit' problem in European societies and how effective the different care systems ar...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

In the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Agency for International Development supported the Afghan Ministry of Public Health to de...