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World Health Organization Community Involvement in Health Development: A
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£52.60
World Health Organization Fao/Who Expert Meeting on the Application of
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£32.00
World Health Organization Health in 2015
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£54.00
World Health Organization Principles for Modeling Dose-response for the
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£36.40
World Health Organization Pesticide Residues in Food - 2008: Evaluations
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£81.00
World Health Organization Pesticide Residues in Food - 2009: Part 2:
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£80.75
World Health Organization Informe Sobre La Salud En El Mundo 2008: La
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£43.20
World Health Organization Informe Mundial Sobre La Discapacidad
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£45.60
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Gouvernance Des Données de Santé À l'Ère Du
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£19.00
WHO Regional Office for Europe European health report 2012: charting the way to
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Eastern Mediterranean status report on road
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£26.00
WHO Regional for Africa Health of the People (The): What works. The
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Addressing diseases of poverty: an initiative to
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Regional framework for action on ageing and
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Health systems in transition template for
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Asian Development Bank Pandemic Preparedness and Response Strategies:
Book SynopsisDrawing on case studies from the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam, this publication highlights successful strategies, mechanisms, and innovations in early coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response in Asia and the Pacific.Across the region, diverse approaches are being taken to mitigate COVID-19. The case studies presented here focus on analyzing pandemic-related challenges in the context of universal health coverage. They identify and describe good practices and lessons learned in emergency and crisis planning, management, and coordination along with whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to pandemic response.
£20.95
EduCart Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
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Westland Publications Limited Karnos Daughter
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£15.99
Anthem Press Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged
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£23.75
Lannoo Publishers Invisible Social Security Revisited: Essays in
Book Synopsis'Invisible social security' is a term coined by Jos Berghman in his early work to draw attention to those aspects of social security that easily tend to be neglected in an instrumental perspective that conceives of social security merely as a particular set of instruments that national welfare states deploy to guarantee basic living standards to their citizens. Among others, Berghman emphasised that social security should rather be conceptualised in a situational sense, that is, as a state of being in which citizens feel confident about themselves and about their future lives. This book, Invisible Social Security Revisited, is a collection of essays published at the occasion of the retirement of Jos Berghman as Professor of Social Policy at KU Leuven - University of Leuven. Taking the notion of 'invisible social security' as a point of reference, nearly thirty years after it was coined, the authors address a series of contemporary issues in social security research and policy-making. One can read about social protection in the past and in the future, about prevention and activation, about European and local policies, about poverty and social exclusion, about feelings of insecurity and failing protection of informal workers, about social values in relation to social policies, and so on. The wide range of issues that are thus covered goes to show that over the years the concept of 'invisible social security' has retained its academic appeal, as well as its significance for the conceptual and empirical understanding of social security policies and realities. Taken together, the essays provide the reader with up-to-date and innovative ideas and information on important questions regarding the social protection of citizens. This Liber Amicorum for Jos Berghman is published at the occasion of his retirement as Professor of Social Policy at the Centre for Sociological Research of the KU Leuven - University of Leuven, 1 October 2014.
£37.50
Amsterdam University Press Expanding Welfare in an Age of Austerity:
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, and particularly since the financial crisis, continental Europe has seen an increasing gap between those workers who have well-protected, good-paying jobs with strong benefits and those who work lower-quality, nonstandard jobs, or who have no regular work at all. This situation would seem to call for increased spending on the social safety net, yet governments throughout the region have instead been turning to austerity. In the face of that reality, the options for helping disadvantaged workers are to extend coverage through re-allocating the benefits given to higher-level workers, maintain the benefits of the well-off as the number of outsiders continues to grow, or simply ignore the problem. This book asks why different nations have taken different tacks in handling-or not handling-this problem.Table of Contents1. Struggling with Persistent Gaps Studying the Welfare State Methodology Conclusion 2. A Tale of Two RMIs Contextualising the Cases Explaining Benefit Reform Politics and the RMIs Southern European Characteristics and Public Pressure Conclusion 3. Public Attitudes toward the Unemployed in Continental, Southern Europe, and Beyond Extending the Comparison Examining Public Opinion Conclusion 4. Southern European Characteristics in the Broader Context The Models Findings Conclusion 5. Bismarck, Beveridge, and Making the Transition Contextualising the Cases Beveridge versus Bismarck Explaining Healthcare Reform Italian Advancements Staying the Course in France Conclusion 6. Healthcare Reform and Public Opinion in Continental and Southern Europe Extending the Comparison Examining Public Opinion Conclusion 7. Examining Healthcare Coverage across the OECD The Models Findings Conclusion 8. Rectifying Coverage Gaps Bibliography Appendix: A Brief Methodological Note
£101.65
Amsterdam University Press Social Movements and the Politics of Debt:
Book SynopsisIt would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis - as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them - have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. Profiting from years of fieldwork and an extensive amount of empirical data, Christoph Sorg traces recent contestations of debt from North Africa to Europe and the US. In doing so, he identifies the emergence of new transnational movement networks against the injustice of current debt politics, which struggle for more social and democratic ways of organizing debt within and between societies.Table of Contents1. D.R.E.A.M. ("debt rules everything around me”) 2. Theories of financialization and social movements 3. The financialization of capitalism 4. Contentious debt politics since the Southern Debt Crisis 5. Responding to the multiple crises of financialized capitalism 6. Debtors' clubs and debtors’ unions 7. Who owes whom? Deconstructing debt fetishism 8. Collective debtor action and prefigurative debt politics 9. Towards a more democratic debt politics? Bibliography Index Cover blurb Cover image Chapter abstracts Biography
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United Library Kanye West: La biografía de un multimillonario
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City University of Hong Kong Press Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and
Book SynopsisSocial inclusion is a key outcome measure for health intervention and social services initiatives. However, there is currently no universal global measure of social inclusion with proven validity and reliability. This prevents accurate cross-cultural comparisons of the impact of social services and policy changes.To fill this void, the authors describe the theory and development of the Social and Community Opportunities Prole (SCOPE) developed in the United Kingdom as a measure of social inclusion. The SCOPE has since been translated and applied in Hong Kong, Poland, and Brazil with proven success in providing empirical evidence of social inclusion among the general public, persons with mental health issues, and immigrants. The first of its kind, this book presents and compares these studies, moving forward social inclusion research and encouraging adoption in academia and by social service providers. The conclusions will also enlighten policy makers at national, regional, and local levels responsible for designing strategies to improve the well-being of disadvantaged groups in society.Social Inclusion: Theoretical Development and Cross-cultural Measurements is the second book in the Mediated Health Series, which focuses on the effects of media, lifestyle, doctor-patient communication, and the economy on health and aims to help inform medical decisions and enhance the well-being of individuals.Table of Contents Part I Social Inclusion Tools and Standards 1. Introducing the Social Inclusion Concept 2. Early Concept Mapping in the United Kingdom and the Need for a New Measure of Social Inclusion 3. The Gold Standard: Development of the Long and Short Social and Community Opportunities Profile (SCOPE) in the United Kingdom Part II Applications in Asia 4. Understanding Social Inclusion among Hong Kong People through Concept Mapping 5. Applying SCOPE-C to Measure Social Inclusion among Users of Mental Health Services in Hong Kong 6. Measuring Social Inclusion among Immigrants in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom 7. Understanding Social Inclusion among Singaporean Citizens through Concept Mapping Part III Applications Outside of Asia 8. Applying SCOPE-P to Measure Social Inclusion among Users of Mental Health Services in Poland 9. The Digital Divide and Social Inclusion among Users of Mental Health Services in Poland 10. Applying SCOPE-B to Measure Social Inclusion among Users of Mental Health Services in Brazil Part IV What These Studies Tell Us About Social Inclusion 11. Factors that Affect Social Inclusion: A Four-country Comparison 12. Conclusion and Future Perspectives
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Central European University Press Nationalism After Communism: Lessons Learned
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Gefen Publishing House Jewish Communal Service in Romania and Poland
Book SynopsisDr. Zvi Feine served the Jewish communities of Romania and Poland as country director for the Joint Distribution Community during those two countries respective transitions from Communist rule. This memoir of his work under the constraints of communism, through the violent December 1989 revolution in Romania and the more peaceful transition in Poland, and in the aftermath of transition to democracy describes the challenges of effective communal service in turbulent times. The mission of the JDC was to support and partner with the Jewish communities that remained after the devastation of the Holocaust, sustaining the Jews of Eastern Europe with material and communal assistance. Dr. Feine relates poignant and harrowing memories of working under the constant surveillance of the Securitate secret service agency and dealing with the aftermath of the revolution and the resistance to change, all the while navigating a complex and delicate web of history, religious and cultural mores, personalities, ideals, and hopes. Illustrated here are numerous principles of communal work, including the importance of understanding the cultural context, resource and leadership development, and the crucial role that lay leaders can play. Communal workers in the Jewish community and beyond will benefit from Dr. Feines accumulated wisdom over a lifetime of community service in positions all over the globe.
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Siglo XXI Ediciones PATAS ARRIBA. La escuela del mundo al revés
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The American University in Cairo Press Occupied Lives: Maintaining Integrity in a
Book SynopsisIntense media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not necessarily enhance one's knowledge or understanding of the Palestinians; on the contrary they are more often than not reduced to either victims or perpetrators. Similarly, while many academic studies devote considerable effort to analyzing the political situation in the occupied territories, there have been few sophisticated case studies of Palestinian refugees living under Israeli rule. An ethnographic study of Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp, just south of Bethlehem, Occupied Lives looks closely at the attempts of the camp inhabitants to survive and bounce back from the profound effects of political violence and Israeli military occupation on their daily lives. Based on the author's extensive fieldwork conducted inside the camp, including a year during 2003-2004 when she lived in Dheisheh, this study examines the daily efforts of camp inhabitants to secure survival and meaning during the period of the al-Aqsa Intifada. It argues that the political developments and experiences of extensive violence at the time, which left most refugees outside of direct activism, caused many camp inhabitants to disengage from traditional forms of politics. Instead, they became involved in alternative practices aimed at maintaining their sense of social worth and integrity, by focusing on processes to establish a 'normal' order, social continuity, and morality. Nina Gren explores these processes and the ambiguities and dilemmas that necessarily arose from them and the ways in which the political and the existential are often intertwined in Dheisheh.Combining theoretical readings with field-based case study, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students of social anthropology, sociology, international relations, refugee studies, religious studies, and Middle East studies, as well as to anyone with an interest in the Israeli-Palestinian issue.Trade Review"For all that has been written about them, Palestinians still remain unknown and misunderstood particularly in the West. Similarly, despite their profound loss and suffering over the last, nearly seven decades, it is still necessary to defend the humanity of Palestinians to those who do not know them. Nina Gren provides a thoughtful and well-researched corrective to this shameful reality with her study of daily life among refugee families in the Dheisheh refugee camp, providing the reader with a window into a world few have ever seen let alone experienced. As such, her work constitutes an important and welcome contribution to the literature."--Sara Roy, Harvard University; "Although the text is based on an academic study, it's written for a larger audience. Gren does integrate a variety of social theoretical concepts into her arguments, but her style remains engaging, her writing concise, and her analysis and argument coherent. Ultimately the text aims to do what many texts don't-steer discussion from a solely state-centered politics to the mechanics of the everyday under a politics of occupation and repression, to show how "high politics" invades ordinary life." Nahrain Al-Mousawi, Middle East Monitor.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Community Development Arenas In Singapore
Book SynopsisIn the last two decades or so, community development efforts in Singapore have strongly focused on task-centred community activities namely short-term projects revolving around socio-educational and recreational activities. Such an emphasis is further reinforced by the outsourcing of community services to the private sector which is contracted to deliver services or activities. Although the consequences are not seen immediately, they will in the longer term reinforce learned helplessness of the participants or beneficiaries who are usually relegated to passive or dependent roles.Through the insights of contributors who are practitioners in the community development field, this book argues that more resources and initiatives must be accorded to community organisations so as to redirect to a community- or resident-centric approach towards community work intervention. In short, more reaching out to people or community groups should be undertaken.Covering a broad range of arenas including health, housing, ageing, community integration and bonding, among others, this book will open up a wider horizon for community development efforts and provide a reservoir of ideas and strategies to build a stronger and resilient community for more effective community problem-solving.
£76.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd A Theoretical Analysis, Performance Evaluation,
Book SynopsisMedical expenditure has become a heavy burden on the public sector and the family system in many countries. Expanding the coverage and reimbursement of medical insurance has become a common way to reduce the burden. This book will elaborate on how medical insurance may increase the burden instead. It explains why the existing medical insurance system results in increased medical costs, where higher costs may offset the benefits of certainty brought by medical insurance, forming the "paradox of medical care insurance". This assumption is verified by empirical evidence in China, through a new method developed to find out the actual medical costs, using two parameters: ratio of self-payment of medical insurance and the level of monopoly in the supply of medical services. The book also describes the history, the current situation, and the reform of the health care system in China.Table of ContentsEconomic Subjects and Markets in the Medical Field; The Insurance System and Its Problems; Government Involvement in the Medical Field; The Formation, Status Quo and Problems of China's Basic Medical System; Efficiency and Fair Evaluation of Resource Allocation in the Medical Industry; Reform Plan Based on Market System; Strategies and Timing of the Medical System Reform; Subject Report: Survey Report on Going to the Hospital to See a Doctor;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Institutional Change And Adaptive Efficiency: A
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, neo-institutionalists have posited that 'institutions matter'. However, they overlook one important issue: the ways institutions change also matters. Numerous academic studies have identified 'good' and 'bad' institutions, but little has been written about effective methods of transforming 'bad' institutions so that they enhance economic performance. To fill this gap, this book reframes the approach of neo-institutional economics to analyze institutions' role and evolution, focusing on the interaction between the household registration (hukou) system evolution and economic transformation.The authors apply an endogenous and dynamic perspective. First, the theory of endogenous institutional change illustrates how the drivers of hukou system evolution differ in the pre-reform and reform eras. Second, the theory of adaptive efficiency evaluates the evolution of the system's institutional efficiency. Finally, the authors were able to test the impact of the hukou reform on urban economic growth by examining local experimentation, helping explain the current 'stickiness' of the system.At the heart of hukou reform lies the question of how to deal with the link between hukou and welfare provision. This book will offer policymakers a better understanding of institutional change in dynamic economic contexts, helping them enhance economic performance.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Rural Urban Migration and Policy Intervention in China: Migrant Workers' Coping Strategies
Book SynopsisThis book examines rural-urban migration policies in China, and considers how Chinese workers cope with migration events in the context of these policies. It explores the contribution of migrant workers to the Chinese economy, the impact of changes within the ‘hukou’ system (household registration) and the impact of recent migration policies promoting rural-urban migration and targeting key events during migrant workers’ migration trajectories - job-seeking, wage exploitation, work injuries and illness - namely the corresponding ‘Skills Training Program for Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Managing Wage Payment to Migrant Workers’, the ‘Circular on Migrant Workers Participating in Work-Related Injury Insurance’, and the ‘New Rural Medical Cooperative Scheme’ (Health Insurance). Through in-depth interviews, it examines how when facing such challenges, migrant workers choose to either make a claim under existing policies, or use other coping strategies. The book notably proposes a typology of “coping” which includes a variety of administrative coping, political coping and social coping, and considers how workers in China harness the power of civil groups and social networks.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- A glance on rural urban migration.- Concepts and methods: coping as a social action.- Migration phases and state intervention in the history of the PRC.- Rural urban migration policies in China since 2000s.- Job Seeking: social networks as a functional substitute for government’s program.- Wage exploitation: protests as an emerging strategy in Chinese society.- Work-related injuries: injured but not entitled for legal compensation.- Illness in cities: claimants appreciate the usefulness of “money”.- Conclusion and Discussion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Health Inequity Experienced by Australian
Book SynopsisThis book provides rare insight into how real children/adolescents’ lives unfold as a result of health inequity. The authors present the findings of empirical research into the health and social circumstances of 61 Australian children/adolescents, as reported by healthcare professionals who attended to their medical needs, revealing how healthcare professionals deal with health inequity on the ground. Profound inequities in the health and wellbeing of children/adolescents worldwide have been the focus of intense research for decades. The extent to which children/adolescents’ health and wellbeing is impacted by violence, poverty, their inability to access integrated healthcare services, parental and adolescent substance abuse, unemployment, poor living conditions, poor nutrition, a fractured social support network, disrupted education, and lack of transportation, is widely recognized. While essential, statistical analyses alone cannot reveal the faces of those experiencing health inequity. This work highlights the need for urgent coordinated action to address health inequity so that children and young people have a chance to lead a full life in good health. It is relevant to researchers and practitioners whose work relates to improving children and young people’s lives.“This book should be required reading for those who influence policies developed by all the sectors mentioned above and their funding and administrative bodies – and politicians in particular” (Anonymous Reviewer).Table of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction.- Chapter 2 – Methods and methodology.- Chapter 3 – Overview of Social Determinants of Health Findings and Vignettes.- Chapter 4 – Results of health inequity analyses.- Chapter 5 – Discussion of findings on social determinants of health.- Chapter 6 – Challenges faced in addressing the needs of these children/young people.- Chapter 7 – Solutions adopted for these children/young people and their families.- Chapter 8 – Outcomes: How these children/young people and their families fared.- Chapter 9 - Discussion of challenges, solutions, and outcomes.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Openness in Practice: Understanding Attitudes to
Book SynopsisThis book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness exist and what the future of open data might look like. It highlights both the challenges and approaches to ‘best practice’ in government departments and agencies as they adapt to changing data ecosystems and public expectations around access, transparency, risk and responsible stewardship.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is Open Data? Historical and Instrumental Perspectives 3. Comparing Open Data Programs in Victoria, Australia 4: Working in Open Data 5: Open Data Futures
£52.24
Springer Verlag, Singapore Consumerism in the Human Services: Rationale,
Book SynopsisThis book captures the evolution of consumerism in the human services. By addressing the changing roles and contributions of consumers (those working within human service organizations and systems and those working outside of those organizations and systems) the author offers an encompassing framework of consumerism. This framework is multidimensional and incorporates multiple types and forms of consumerism. The author offers a rationale for consumerism in the human services, illustrates its evolution, and considers multiple perspectives and models culminating in policy considerations, including specific strategies. This book will equip consumers, survivors, practitioners, and policy makers with substantive knowledge of how to advance human services through action and innovation.Table of ContentsRationale for consumerism in the human services.- Evolution of consumerism in the human services.- Substantive differences between consumerism and survivorship.- Typology of consumerism and survivorship.- Cultures of consumerism in human services.- The inside-outside approach to consumerism- Progressive and radical policy strategies.- Consumerism as an enduring social force in human services.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Child Safety, Welfare and Well-being: Issues and
Book SynopsisThis book provides a focused and comprehensive overview of the status of children across society, with special reference to emerging features and measures of child safety, welfare, and overall well-being. The book is arranged into four parts covering various dimensions of child welfare and well-being. In this second edition, highly experienced academics, researchers, child rights activities, and policymakers from both developed and developing countries have contributed chapters on topics such as status of children living under institutional care, sexual abuse of male children and tribal girl children, issues and challenges faced by children living in conflict zones, children living on the streets, COVID-19 and its impact on the education of children. The status of marginalized children gets special importance in the second edition. The new chapters include field-based experiences of researchers in protecting child rights and preventing child abuse. It also considers the promising strategies and promising future directions in enhancing effective prevention, intervention and responses to child abuse and neglect. This volume is essential for a wide range of professionals and researchers from the social sciences, law, medicine, and behavioral sciences. It is also beneficial for policymakers and law enforcement agencies working with children.Table of Contents1 Introduction—Child Safety, Welfare, and Well-being: Need of the Hour. . ……………………………………………………. . ………….. Sibnath Deb Part I Nature and Extent of Child Abuse and Neglect 2 Fifty Years of Child Abuse: Milestones, Misconceptions, and Moving On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………… Kim Oates 3 Cyberbullying: Its Prevention and Intervention Strategies . . . . . . . ………….. Rebecca P. Ang 4 Child Abuse and Neglect in India, Risk Factors, and Protective Measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………… Sibnath Deb & Mrinalkanti Ray 5 Children’s Right to Safety: The Problem of Corporal Punishment in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………. George W. Holden & Rose Ashraf 6 Child Sexual Abuse in a Trusted Relationship: Trauma or Confusion?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………. B.N. Roopesh 7 Conflict in Kashmir: Psychosocial Consequences on Children . . . . ………… Waheeda Khan 8 The Law and Practices of Ritual Male Circumcision: Time for Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………….. Esther I.J. Erlings 9 Child Well-being At The Crossroads: Impact of Work-Life Interface, Consumerism, and Adult Lifestyle Choices…………………………………… Tusharika Mukherjee 10 Children Witnessing Violence in India: Nature, Risk factors, Impact and Prevention Strategies ……………………………………………. Rituparna Chakraborty & Aneesh Kumar P 11 The Untold Story of Survival: The Life of Paniya Tribal Adolescent Girls of Kerala……………………………………………….. Saranya S & Sibnath Deb Part II: Status of Children under Difficult Circumstances 12 Plight of Nomadic Children: In Search of Consideration and Inclusions ……………………………………………………………………… Jagdish Jadhav, Priya Rajput & Swati Amrale-Jadhav 13 Safety and Welfare of Children Under Institutional Care: A Situation Analysis……………………………………………………………. K.Bhuvaneswari & Sibnath Deb 14 Children in Armed Conflict: Concerns for Safety and Measures Towards Well-being Raveena Kousar & Subhasis Bhadra 15 Child Safety and Wellbeing During the Covid-19 Pandemic ……….. Bishakha Majumdar 16 Unfolding Children’s Agency in Ensuring Child Protection……………….. Virgil D Sami 17 Children of Stigmatized Parents: Concerns and Fostering Holistic Development Aishwarya Gautam & Subhasis Bhadra 18 Male Child Sexual Abuse: Current Status and Future Directions…….. P. Swathisha & Sibnath Deb Part III Child Rights and Its Practice 19 Adoption: Right to Information Versus Right to Confidentiality. . . ……. Jagannath Pati 20 Dropouts to Learners: The Challenge of the Right to Education Act 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………. Vimala Veeraraghavan Part IV Rights of Vulnerable Children 21 Child Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……. Seema Sahay, Archana Verma, Suhas Shewale & Murugesan Periyasamy 22 Adoption: A Source of Maltreatment and Violation of Child Rights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ………. Nilanjana Sanyal 23 Child Labor: An Indian Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… N.K. Chadha & Vandana Gambhir Chopra 24 Rights of Children with Disability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …... Prerna Sharma 25 Prevention of Abandonment of Children with Special Needs Through Community-Based Programs and Intervention. . . . . . . . . ……… Chitra Shah 26 Psycho-Social Support for Protection of Children in Disasters. . . . …… Subhasis Bhadra Part V Protective Measures 27 Protecting Children: Building Effective Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …. Jenny Gray 28 Governance and Social Spaces for Children …………………………. Akila Radhakrishnan 29 Developing Countries and the Potential of Mandatory Reporting Laws to Identify Severe Child Abuse and Neglect. . . . . . . ……. Ben Mathews 30 Child Sexual Abuse in Brazil: Awareness, Legal Aspects and Examples of Prevention Strategies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……… Lucia C.A. Williams & Sabrina M. D’Affonseca 31 Child Protection: Many Milestones on an Estranged Path. . . . . . . ….. Bharti Ali 32 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Child Protection from Sexual Abuse in India: The Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ….. Lina Acca Mathew 33 Child Protection: The Grassroots Issues and Challenges. . . . . . . . … Mala Bhandari
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects
Book SynopsisThis open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in data projects for public good and gives worked examples of projects of various sizes and complexity.Trade Review“Data For Social Good is a timely release given the latest spate of cybersecurity attacks and data breaches which targeted the non-profit sector emphasising the importance of digital upskilling and resourcing. … Data For Social Good combines real-life case studies involving community organisations, non-profits and government agencies with hands-on advice and guidance. The book has been designed for leaders and board members who are interested in becoming capable with data and how to get started … on data projects for public good.” (Ruby Kraner-Tucci, PRObono, brobonoaustralia.com.au, January 11, 2023)Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Case Studies of Data Projects 3 Data Capability Through Collaborative Data Action 4 Activating for a Data-Capable Future
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Wachstumsmechanismen und nachhaltige Entwicklung
Book SynopsisWas können chinesische Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus dem japanischen Wirtschaftsboom und der anschließenden Stagnation lernen? Dieses Projekt zielt darauf ab, den Wachstumsmechanismus und die Determinanten der nachhaltigen Entwicklung in China im Vergleich zu den japanischen Erfahrungen institutionell und empirisch zu untersuchen. Dies ist die erste Herausforderung bei der Durchführung einer vergleichenden Studie über Chinas und Japans Wirtschaftswachstum und Entwicklung. Unser Ziel ist es, den Übergang des Wirtschaftssystems und seinen Einfluss auf die chinesische und japanische Wirtschaft aus makro- und mikroökonomischer Sicht zu untersuchen. Dieses Buch wird für Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Wissenschaftler der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft und Wissenschaftler, die sich mit der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung Chinas oder Japans befassen, von Interesse sein.Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Vergleiche des chinesischen und japanischen Entwicklungsprozesses aus wirtschaftlicher und politisch-ökonomischer Sicht.- 3 Handel, ausländische Direktinvestitionen und Wirtschaftswachstum.- 4 Das digitale China: Die vierte industrielle Revolution mit chinesischen Merkmalen.- 5 Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung in China: Vergleich mit der japanischen Erfahrung.- 6 Die Finanzinnovation in der Kapitalflußrechnung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Evidence from Japan.- 7 Human Capital Agglomeration Effect and Regional Inequality.- 8 Environmental Policies and Water Resource Management.- 9 Dual Economic Structure, Surplus Labor and Rural-Urban Migration.- 10 Household Consumption and Manufactural Industry Upgrading.- 11 Enterprise Ownership Reform and Wage Gaps between Public and Private Sectors.- 12 Mitgliedschaft in der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas und Lohnunterschiede zwischen Parteimitgliedern und Nichtmitgliedern.- 13 Auswirkungen der Gewerkschaften auf die Arbeitsbedingungen.- 14 Gleichstellungspolitik und geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede auf dem Arbeitsmarkt.- 15 Reform der staatlichen Rentenpolitik und Erwerbsbeteiligung.- 16 Erbschaftsmotive und Sparverhalten älterer Menschen.- 17 Einkommen, Einkommensungleichheit und subjektives Wohlbefinden.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Comparative Studies on Pandemic Control Policies
Book SynopsisThis book documents and analyses the differentiated control policies, the determinant factors behind, social resilience, and international relations during the pandemic from a comparative perspective in a facts-based, data-supporting manner. The intermittent outbreak of cases, public sentiments after long anxiety, questions over the efficacy of vaccines, have forced governments as well as the public to rethink differing approaches and policies in the combat against not just COVID, but the delta variant. In this context, this book establishes itself as a timely product, perhaps the first of its kind, to provide a widely covered individual country-based observation of policies, with an emphasis on multidimensional determinant factors behind the policies. A comparative study of social resilience during the pandemic constitutes another highlight of the book. The different policies tested social resilience differently in parameters such as mortality rates, vaccination coverage, social mobility, travel arrangements, trust in government, and general human development. Above and beyond observations and analyses at local and national levels, this book expands its scope to incorporate international relations, contemplating over the impacts of the pandemic on international relations, power shifts, and new world/global orders, crystallized in the indisputable rise of China. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Public Policies in Controlling Pandemic.- Cultural and Historical Comparison of Factors Behind Pandemic Control Policies.- Political, Institutional, and State Theory Comparison. Governmental Intervention or Civil Cooperation? Reliance on Governmental Arrangement Versus Resort to Institutional Power?.- International Relations and Great Power Comparison. Changes in the Soft Power and Nation Branding for Individual Countries Following their Handling of the Pandemic, Etc.- Public Health Systems and Social Policy System Regimes Comparison.- Public Wealth Regimes and Impact on Pandemic Control Policy and Social Resilience.- Economic Comparison: Costs and Benefits of Different Control Policies.- Comprehensive/ “Great Game” Strategy Comparison. Issues Around the Various Schools of Thought, Including Conspiracy Theories, Relationship Between the Pandemic, Pandemic-Control, China’s Rise, and New World Order (International Power Shift), Economic Production, and Global Supply Chain Changes, as Well as Impacts on Policymaking, Etc.- Social Resilience.- Data-Driven, Data-Supported Analysis of Resilience, Like Social and Psychological Resilience Comparison.- Sociology of the Pandemic and the Impact on Social Resilience: Comparative Studies.- Big Data Social Resilience Analysis Comparative Studies.- Economic and Political Comparison in Resilience.- “New Normal” Preparing for and Resulting From “Living With Covid.”.- Public Sentiments, Public Trust in Governance Affect Pandemic Control, Public Backlash After Once Successful Handling Of Pandemic by Coercive Force.- Social Costs and Benefits Analysis of Pandemic Control Policies.- Will Leave for Other Issues of Comparative Nature Surrounding the Pandemic Studies. Current Chapters Include.- Comparison of Pandemics in History. What was the Social, Economic, Diplomatic, as Well as Political Implications by Previous Well-Known Pandemics in History, such as the Black Death in the 14th Century, Harbin Plaque in 1910~1911, The Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918~1919, and The SARS in 2002-2003?.- Vaccination-Related Topics, such as Comparison of Efficacy of Various Vaccines, Attitudes Towards Vaccine, Vaccine Passport, and Others. China’s International Participation in Vaccine Provision?.- Corona-A New Grand Narrative?.- Other Topics. Geographical Comparison: Routes of Pandemic Spreading and Border Re-Opening.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Civilization's Crisis: A Set Of Linked Challenges
Book SynopsisModern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.
£65.55
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Civilization's Crisis: A Set Of Linked Challenges
Book SynopsisModern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.
£31.35
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd China's Development: Social Investment And
Book SynopsisChina has made remarkable yet uneven progress in social development. This book analyses China's achievements and problems in social development from the perspective of social investment. Social investment has gained popularity in Europe as a new social policy paradigm. It seeks to use government budget more efficiently and effectively by investing in people rather than 'social consumption'.This book focuses on a few policy areas central to social investment and capacity building, including education, technical training, R&D, and the hukou reform. It also analyses challenges and limitations of China's social investment policies. It sheds light on the most notable feature of China's social investment regime, which is the concentration of resources, privileges, and policy support on sectors and institutions with more growth potential. This helps to explain why China's progress in social development is remarkable but unequal.
£73.15
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service
Book SynopsisDr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered, this volume brings together an exceptional team of Singaporean scholars whose interdisciplinary expertise and cross-generational perspectives offer a balanced analysis and nuanced appraisal of Dr. Goh's lifetime of public service. The book's contributors argue that Dr. Goh's past endeavours bequeathed an enduring legacy, meriting fresh examination and careful evaluation in order to appreciate the heroic scale of such achievement.Particularly instructive are the examples of Dr. Goh's thinking patriotism, fiscal prudence, strategic pragmatism, and creative imagination at work — technocracy at its finest — which could be of immediate, practical benefit to a wider ‘nation of technocrats’. Further illumination comes from the insights of those contributors who had worked with the former Deputy Prime Minister and knew him personally. For a half-century that witnessed key turning points and phases of development in Singapore's transformation from colonial port city to independent global city, Dr. Goh played a leading role in the crafting and conduct of public policy, as with the creation of public institutions, which made the difference between survival and success. The organization of this volume reflects both a thematic approach and a chronological arrangement of material, the focus and the order of chapters corresponding to the historical sequence of public offices that Dr. Goh held: social welfare; political and constitutional evolution; development economics and finance; the armed forces and defence industry; the education system, from schools through higher education to the research institutes; Chinese studies, from Confucianism to ‘China watching’; and cultural development, with special emphasis on the creation of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy of Public Service will be read by present and future generations of public servants, by Singaporeans in general, and by all students and laypersons with an interest in the modern history of Singapore — social, economic, political, military, and cultural — to which a characteristically simple and frugal Dr. Goh contributed both decisively and unreservedly.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Emrys Chew); Goh Keng Swee in a Social Welfare History of Singapore (Ho Chi Tim); Goh Keng Swee in Politics and Parliament (Kevin Y L Tan); Goh Keng Swee, the Development Economist (Lee Soo Ann); Goh Keng Swee and Finance (Linda Low); Goh Keng Swee and the Emergence of a Modern SAF (Bernard F W Loo); Goh Keng Swee and Singapore's Defence Industrial Policy (Adrian W J Kuah); Goh Keng Swee and the Singapore Education System (Alistair Chew); Goh Keng Swee's Contributions to Higher Education, Military Education and the Research Institutes (Ernest Chew); Goh Keng Swee and Chinese Studies in Singapore: From Confucianism to 'China Watching' (John Wong); Goh Keng Swee's Cultural Contributions and the Making of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Bernard T G Tan); Conclusion (Kwa Chong Guan).
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Social Development And Social Policy:
Book SynopsisSocial policy reforms driven by profound social changes have been a popular and pressing topic worldwide in recent years in both policy and academic circles. In this book, prominent social policy scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia discuss the history of social policies, compare different social development models, and analyze the challenges facing these economies' social policy reforms. The book provides comprehensive and comparative perspectives and updated data on social development and social policy reforms in the world's major economies, and particularly, in mainland China.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore ClimateRelated Human Mobility in Asia and the
Book SynopsisThis open access book critically examines the policies and practices related to climate-related human mobility in Asia-Pacific and the legal and policy protection framework for climatically displaced migrants (CDMs) through an interdisciplinary human rights-based approach.
£40.49
Springer The Future of Education Policy in the State of
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Springer Verlag, Singapore COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality:
Book SynopsisThe book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of global inequalities across nations depending upon their economic position, support policies of the government and international relationship particularly in the context of alarming growth of unemployed in the labour market, business activity and social sector. This book is expected to provide new areas of research to both academicians and policy makers to re-think about global cooperation for bridging the inequalities for a better world. It tries to incorporate the valuable contribution of experts from various fields of knowledge in a consolidated volume. This text will be revised once the chapters are finalized and put together in structured themes. The table of content lists some of the chapters that have been confirmed, but there are more that are being invited by the editors.Table of ContentsThe impact of Covid-19 on sustainable development in Europe: a temporal analysis.- Global Liquidity under Covid-19: Unconventional Monetary Policies and Rising Inequalities.- Digital Movement and Implications on Sustainable Development in Post Pandemic Time: An Introspection with Special Reference to India.- Impact of Foreign Trade and COVID-19 Pandemic on Sri Lankan and Indian Economy: A Comparative Study.- Determining the right strategies for Turkey to avoid an energy crisis during the pandemic process.- The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Incidence of Poverty, Economic Growth and Development: Evidence from Ghana.- COVID-19 and Impact on Income Inequality: The Indian Experience.- COVID-19 Pandemic, Employment Differential and Health Expenditure nexus in sub-Saharan African Countries: Evidence from vector Autoregressive (VAR) model.- Covid -19 and the Informal Sector of India’s Economy: An Econometric Analysis.- COVID-19 Pandemic, Health Crisis and Financial Stability.- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Basic education in South Asian Countries: An Exploratory Analysis.- Covid 19, Online Education & Role of Mentoring in Developing Economies– A Theoretical Build-up with an empirical Overhaul.- COVID-19 Pandemic and its impact on Access to Safe Drinking Water: A Case Study.
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Lerner Publishing Group Muchas Formas de Ser Many Ways to Be
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