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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Michigan Welfare Journal
The Welfare of Children
Author: Duncan LindseyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195136705
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Takes a critical look at the child welfare system, finding that the emphasis on abuse has produced a system that serves largely as a last resort for only the worst and most dramatic cases in child welfare. This book is a blueprint for the comprehensive reform of the child welfare system.
Infectious Disease Surveillance
Author: Nkuchia M. M'ikanathaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118543521
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1139
Book Description
This fully updated edition of Infectious Disease Surveillance is for frontline public health practitioners, epidemiologists, and clinical microbiologists who are engaged in communicable disease control. It is also a foundational text for trainees in public health, applied epidemiology, postgraduate medicine and nursing programs. The second edition portrays both the conceptual framework and practical aspects of infectious disease surveillance. It is a comprehensive resource designed to improve the tracking of infectious diseases and to serve as a starting point in the development of new surveillance systems. Infectious Disease Surveillance includes over 45 chapters from over 100 contributors, and topics organized into six sections based on major themes. Section One highlights the critical role surveillance plays in public health and it provides an overview of the current International Health Regulations (2005) in addition to successes and challenges in infectious disease eradication. Section Two describes surveillance systems based on logical program areas such as foodborne illnesses, vector-borne diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, viral hepatitis healthcare and transplantation associated infections. Attention is devoted to programs for monitoring unexplained deaths, agents of bioterrorism, mass gatherings, and disease associated with international travel. Sections Three and Four explore the uses of the Internet and wireless technologies to advance infectious disease surveillance in various settings with emphasis on best practices based on deployed systems. They also address molecular laboratory methods, and statistical and geospatial analysis, and evaluation of systems for early epidemic detection. Sections Five and Six discuss legal and ethical considerations, communication strategies and applied epidemiology-training programs. The rest of the chapters offer public-private partnerships, as well lessons from the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic and future directions for infectious disease surveillance.
$2.00 a Day
Author: Kathryn EdinPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544303180
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists--from a leading national poverty expert who "defies convention" (New York Times)
Marnie's Journals
Author: Lila KaroubPublisher: Page Publishing, Inc
ISBN: 1646288149
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Marnie's Journals is a true story about a woman who participates in two decades of crime-related activities that went too far with her latest crime. She was arrested and charged with grand larceny, facing twenty-one years in prison. She was also facing other felony charges. She would begin to have headaches and confusion, trying to keep up with the hearts of three men. The death of one them would change Marnie's course and stop her dead in her tracks to consider her actions. After this death, her life takes a dangerous turn into a life of crime for two decades. Marnie's Journals is a story about multiple men, manipulation, deceit, dishonor, and mayhem.
From Welfare to Workfare
Author: Jennifer MittelstadtPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876437
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "ended welfare as we know it" and trumpeted "workfare" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. Mittelstadt examines the dramatic reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) from the 1940s through the 1960s, demonstrating that in this often misunderstood period, national policy makers did not overlook issues of poverty, race, and women's role in society. Liberals' public debates and disagreements over welfare, however, caused unintended consequences, she argues, including a shift toward conservatism. Rather than leaving ADC as an income support program for needy mothers, reformers recast it as a social services program aimed at "rehabilitating" women from "dependence" on welfare to "independence," largely by encouraging them to work. Mittelstadt reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation, probing beneath its surface to reveal gendered and racialized assumptions about the welfare poor and broader societal concerns about poverty, race, family structure, and women's employment.
The Michigan Journal
Author: Characteristics and Financial Circumstances of AFDC Recipients
Author: Searching the Law - The States
Author: Francis R DoylePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004531157
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare
Author: Peter Taylor-GoobyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319757830
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
This edited collection uses democratic forums to study what people want from the welfare state in five European countries. The forum method yields new insights into how people frame social issues, their priorities and acceptable solutions. This is the first time democratic forums have been used as a research tool in this field. The contributors’ research show that most people recognize growing inequality, population ageing, paying for health care and pensions, social care and immigration as areas where the welfare state faces real challenges. The most striking findings are the high level of support across all countries for social investment, and the way justifications for this vary between welfare state regimes. The authors also explore key areas such as immigration and intergenerational differences. Attitudes, Aspirations and Welfare will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including politics, social policy and sociology, as well as policy-makers.