The Politics of Human Services
Author | : Steven Wineman |
Publisher | : Boston, MA : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Steven Wineman |
Publisher | : Boston, MA : South End Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gunnar Almgren, MSW, PhD |
Publisher | : Springer Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2006-11-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0826102360 |
Designated a Doody's Core Title! Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Who Has a Right to Health Care? What Is the Government's Role in Providing Accessible Health Care? How Are Corporations, Insurance Companies, and Health Care Providers Affecting the Quality of Health Care? And, Most Importantly, Can We Reform the U.S. Health Care System? We often debate these issues in health care policy or public health courses, yet we do so without the proper knowledge of the underlying structure of the U.S. health care system--or a framework by which it can be judged. Many health care workers entering the system are ill-equipped to address the issues faced in direct health care practice, in part because they have no ability to evaluate it. In this innovative text, Gunnar Almgren provides all the tools necessary to understand and critique a health care policy in dire need of change. First, he describes the historical evolution of U.S. health care, explaining how the early roles of hospitals, doctors, and nurses still influence today's system. He explains the complex financial aspects of health care, including the concerns of all its major stakeholders. He looks at the government's role in regulating and funding health care, and how that role has expanded and contracted through various political administrations. An entire chapter describes the facilities and services available for the elderly--an issue that will continue to rise in importance as America ages. Finally, he examines the many causes of disparities in the U.S. health care system. In addition, Almgren offers a unique social justice analysis as a framework by which the current system--and proposed reforms--can be judged. By analyzing the health care system through various models of social justice, we can begin to understand and address the urgent issues of economic, racial, and geographic disparities that plague our current system. With its clear, thorough, and comprehensive coverage of U.S. health care, this unique text is accessible to all those in public health, nursing, social work, public policy, or public administration. No other book addresses the underlying issues of the U.S. health care system alongside a variety of social justice models that we can use to evaluate, and perhaps eventually, change it.
Author | : Yeheskel Hasenfeld |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 1217 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1412956935 |
This new edition looks at the many recent changes in the arena of Human Sevices Organizations.
Author | : Jeffry H. Galper |
Publisher | : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780136852148 |
A critical analysis of the political roles and impact of social services in the United States, assessing their influence on the values, structures, and human behaviors underlying the present social order.
Author | : Stephen Pimpare |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2021-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231551894 |
The social work profession calls on its members to strive for social justice. It asks aspiring and practicing social workers to advocate for political change and take part in political action on behalf of marginalized people and groups. Yet this macro goal is often left on the back burner as the day-to-day struggles of working directly with clients take precedence. And while most social workers have firsthand knowledge of how public policy neglects or outright harms society’s most vulnerable, too few have training in the political processes that created these policies. This book is a concise, accessible guide to help social workers understand how politics and policy making really work—and what they can do to help their clients and their communities. Helping readers develop sustainable strategies at the micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, this book is a hands-on manual to contemporary American politics, showing social workers and social work students how to engage in effective activism. Stephen Pimpare, a political scientist with extensive experience as a social work practitioner and instructor, offers informed, practical grounding in the mechanics of policy making and the tools that activists and outsiders can use to take on an entrenched system. He distills key research and insights from political science and related disciplines into a practical resource for social work students, instructors, and practitioners looking to deepen their policy knowledge and capacity to achieve change.
Author | : Daniel E. Dawes |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1421437899 |
A thought-provoking and evocative account that considers both the policies we think of as "health policyand those that we don't, The Political Determinants of Health provides a novel, multidisciplinary framework for addressing the systemic barriers preventing the United States from becoming the healthiest nation in the world.
Author | : Laurence E. Lynn |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Social work administration |
ISBN | : |
The book asserts that if reorganization is to improve state agency performance, rather than ending as it so often does in disappointment and frustration, the political context must be carefully analyzed and proposals designed accordingly.
Author | : Fred W Powell |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001-05-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780761964124 |
The Politics of Social Work provides a major contribution to debates on the politics of social work, at the beginning of the 21st Century. It locates social work within wider political and theoretical debates and deals with important issues currently facing social workers and the organisations in which they work. By setting the current crisis of identity social workers are experiencing in international context, Fred Powell analyses the choices facing social work in postmodern society. Fred Powell explores in this text contemporary and historical paradigms of social work from its Victorian origins to the development of reformist practice in the welfare state to radical social work, responses to social exclusion, the rennaissance of civil society, multiculturalism, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. In conclusion the he examines the options facing social work in the 21st century and argues for a civic model of social work based on the pursuit of social justice in an inclusive society.
Author | : Rebecca Ann Proehl |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001-08-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780761922506 |
Organizations today { whether public or private { exist in environment s where the pace of change is dizzying. Human service organizations fa ce both external and internal challenges: The public demands better se rvices at more reasonable costs. Clientele is more diverse, more strat ified, and more vocal than ever. The organizations themselves must kee p up with rapid changes in technological innovation and labor-manageme nt relationships. Organizational Change: The Human Services Challenge looks at the context of organizational change, describes how individua ls and systems change, and pinpoints keys to successful change. Author Rebecca Proehl then presents a proven model of organizational change, built on lessons learned from both the public and private sectors, bu t tailored for human service organizations. Proehl also discusses in d epth labor union-management issues, the political strategies leaders m ust use to implement change, and how to build collaborative relationsh ips in human services.
Author | : Thomas Fleming |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1412838401 |
The effort to understand human nature in a political context is a daunting challenge that has been undertaken in a variety of ways and by a myriad of disciplines through the ages. From Plato to Hobbes and Burke, to Wallas and Oakeschott in our era, efforts have been made to provide some organic framework for the political study of mankind. What has added greatly to the complexity of the task is the increasing denial, even rejection, in the positivist and behaviorist traditions, of the very notion of a human nature. The work can be described as a series of interlocking propositions: the proverbial view of human nature can be explained by evolutionary theory. Biological differences between men and women are responsible for family, community and group life. Social evolution goes through stages which are recapitulated in the moral life of individuals. A well-defined federal system mirrors human development. And finally, for Fleming, most problems in social and political life stem from violations of this federalist system. Fleming's volume takes up a variety of issues: sex and gender differences, democracy and dictatorship, individual and familial patterns of association. He does so in the context of showing how forms of legitimate authority such as families, communities and nations establish such authority by appeals to human nature, and that these appeals, while presumably resting on empirical evidence, also confirm the existence of normative structures. Fleming's work is an effort of synthesis that is sure to arouse discussion and debate. It represents a serious addition to a literature retrieved from the historical dustbins to which it has been repeatedly consigned.