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  • Social Policy

    The Quest for Freedom, Equality and Justice

    de Virpi Timonen ...
    Concepts like freedom, equality and justice have many uses – and even more misuses. In seeking to manage an increasingly complex world, it is more important than ever to think carefully about the meaning of such concepts which are central to policy debates and integral to implementing effective social policy around the world.This concise and readable book is a guide to those essential social ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

    Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic

    de Roberta Perna, Luis Moreno Fernández, Monika Riedel, Christoph Stegner, Caroline Glendinning, Tyyne Ylinen, Vera Ylinen, Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, Satu Ylinen, Claude Martin, Sara Burke, Blanche Le Bihan, Thomas Gerlinger, Eduard Klukas, Caspar Lückenbach, Phillip Florian Schmidt, Costis Prouskas, Michael Goudoumas, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen, Eimir Hurley, Costanzo Ranci, Marco Arlotti, Stefania Cerea, Cristina Font, Robert Urbé, María Bruquetas-Callejo, Arnaud Campéon, Anita Böcker, Luís Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado, Nuno Nunes, Jorge José Hernández-Moreno, Manuel Pereira-Puga, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Pär Schön, Lennarth Johansson ...
    Series series Transforming Care
    Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic.It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by the crisis, such as staff shortages, the precariousness of employment in the sector, and the deficient ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Pathways of Human Development

    Explorations of Change

    de Gary L. Bowen, Susan Chuang, Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab, Julie C. Dunsmore, April L. Few, Robbie Gilligan, Amy G. Halberstadt, Janet Holland, Angela J. Huebner, Kee Jeong Kim, Leon Kuczynski, Susan Lollis, Hugh Milroy, Monique B. Mitchell, Thomas H. Ollendick, Robyn Pitman, Michele Preyde, Dionne P. Stephens, Virpi Timonen, Rosalind Edwards ...
    Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes, and consequences, the chapters examine a range of topics such as health and adaptation; social ... Leer más

    $141.99 USD

  • Social Policy and the Capability Approach

    Concepts, Measurements and Application

    de Erik Jansen, Jose de Sao Jose, Franceso Laruffa, Mary P Murphy, Rory Hearne, Mara Yerkes, Anna Kurowska, Liz Oliver, Virpi Timonen, Jean-Michel Bonvin0 ...
    The capability approach, an increasingly popular conceptual and theoretical framework focused on what individuals are able to do and be, offers a unique evaluative perspective to social policy analysis. This book explores the advantages of this approach and offers a way forward in addressing conceptual and empirical issues as they apply specifically to social policy research and practice. Short ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Grandparenting Practices Around the World

    Reshaping family

    de Lucie Vidovićová, Lucie Galcanova, Esther CL Goh, Merril Silverstein, Vern Bengston, April L Few-Demo, Megan L Dolbin-MacNab, Ilkka Pietila, Hanna Ojala, Judith E Brown, Myra Hamilton, Lyn Craig, Dovile Vildaite, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Jaco Hoffman, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, John Knodel, Karen Glaser, Giorgio Di Gessa, Eloi Ribe, Debora Price, Bruno Arpino, Rachel Margolis ...
    This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

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  • Treating Health Care

    How the Canadian System Works and How It Could Work Better

    de Raisa Deber ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Canada has been among the world leaders in recognizing the multiple factors that impact health. Focusing on Canada’s health care system, Raisa B. Deber provides brief descriptions of some key facts and concepts necessary to understand health care policy in Canada and place it in an international context.An accessible guide, Treating Health Care unpacks key concepts to provide informed discussions ... Leer más

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  • The Cult of Efficiency

    de Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Leer más

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  • The Unequal Pandemic

    COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

    de Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch ...
    Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal ... Leer más

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  • About Canada: Childcare

    de Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice ...
    Series Libro 2 - About Canada
    In Canada, early childhood education and care includes childcare programs, kindergartens and nursery schools. When these programs are well-designed, they support children’s development and accommodate parents who work or study. About Canada: Childcare answers questions about early childhood education and childcare (ECEC) in Canada. Why doesn’t Canada have an ECEC system, even though other ... Leer más

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  • The Lancet: Universal Health Coverage

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    Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, has stated that "Universal Health Coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer." In this Series from The Lancet, the first of three papers explores the evidence on the links between expansions in coverage and population health outcomes. The second paper looks at the political and economic dimensions ... Leer más

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  • Racism in the Canadian University

    Demanding Social Justice, Inclusion, and Equity

    Edición de Frances Henry, Carol Tator ...
    The mission statements and recruitment campaigns for modern Canadian universities promote diverse and enlightened communities. Racism in the Canadian University questions this idea by examining the ways in which the institutional culture of the academy privileges Whiteness and Anglo-Eurocentric ways of knowing. Often denied and dismissed in practice as well as policy, the various forms of racism ... Leer más

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  • Hybrid Labour

    Measuring, Classifying, and Representing Workers at the Boundaries of Employment and Self-employment

    Edición de Annalisa Murgia ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book advances the debate on the hybrid areas of labour by taking the case of work arrangements that destabilise the dichotomies between standard and non‑standard work and between self‑employment and dependent employment. By maintaining the connection between structural conditions and human agency, it focuses not only on how workers at the boundaries between employment and self‑employment are ... Leer más

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