Social Policy Perspective Research Articles

Women caregivers, women wage earners: Social policy perspectives in Norway

This paper assesses the connection between women's political representation and social policies affecting the welfare of the group of individuals most vulnerable to economic impoverishment, single mothers. In general, integrative wage labor and child-care policies are progressing at a faster rate in the small and homogeneous society of Norway as compared to the U.S.A. Norway, however, lags behind other Scandinavian nations in initiating some of the components of comprehensive child care policies, including mother's allowance, transitional benefit allowance, reduction in the gender gap in earnings, parental leave, day care, child support collection, and income disregard to enable welfare recipients to make successful transition into wage labor. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of feminist scholarship and activism, which first must impact values and philosophies underlying policy formulations before significant improvements in the welfare of mother-headed families can be accomplished.

The Age of Aging: Implications for Nursing/Aging and Health Care. Social science and policy perspectives (Book).

The Age of Aging: Implications for Nursing/Aging and Health Care. Social science and policy perspectives (Book).

Book Reviews : Aging and Health Care: Social science and policy perspectives Marcia G. Ory and Kathleen Bond (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 1989, 265pp, £13.95 pbk

Book Reviews : Aging and Health Care: Social science and policy perspectives Marcia G. Ory and Kathleen Bond (eds) Routledge, London and New York, 1989, 265pp, £13.95 pbk

Health Behaviour Research and Health Promotion.

Part 1 The development of concepts and research in health behaviour: historical origins of health behaviour, David Armstrong the development of the concept of health behaviour and its application in recent research, Robert Anderson. Part 2 Approaches to the study of health behaviour: ethnographic approaches to health, Una Maclean what social groups think they can do about health, Janine Pierret the role of socio-structural factors in health behaviour, Horst Noack risk factors investigation of health behaviour - Hungarian experiences, Mihaly Kokeny et al. Part 3 National surveys of health behaviour: methodological issues in the study of health-related behaviour, Kathryn Dean health-behaviour measurement in the evaluation of community based health-promotion programmes, Don Nutbeam the behavioural risk factor surveys in the United States 1981-1983, Gary Hogelin national surveys of health behaviour in Finland, Esko Kalimo. Part 4 Research on health behaviour in local environments: health beliefs and behaviour in the home, Roisin Pill the evolution of the juvenile health habit study 1977-1985, Matti Rimpela et al health beliefs and behaviour in the workplace, Lamberto Briziarelli health promotion and the concept of community, John Ashton. Part 5 The application of research in health behaviour: the autonomous region of Madrid, Rose Martinez and Armando Perruga Urrea the Canadian experience, Irving Rootman national health education programmes, John K.Davies. Part 6 Discussion papers on a new agenda for research in health behaviour: new perspectives for research in health behaviour, Ilona Kickbusch the need for new social policy perspectives in health-behaviour research, Pierpaolo Donati directions for research in health behaviour related to health promotion - an overview, David V.McQueen a note on research priorities from participants in the Symposium on Health Behaviour, Pitlochry.

The Role of Foundations in American Society

The Role of Foundations in American Society

Aging and health care: social science and policy perspectives

Aging and health care: social science and policy perspectives

Physician Dispensing: Issues of Law, Legislation and Social Policy

Despite the fact that physicians have dispensed prescription drugs for profit for several years, the practice is currently under intense challenge and controversy. This recent flare-up can be explained by several factors including the involvement of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), increased competition among physicians, alternative delivery systems and drug repackagers. Federal laws including the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act and Controlled Substances Act regulate dispensing practices, but have been interpreted to regulate dispensing by pharmacists, not physicians. All states have laws applicable to the dispensing of prescription drugs by physicians, but the wording of these laws raises unclear legal issues. Both uncertainty about these legal issues and pharmacists' concern over the increase in physician dispensing has promoted state legislative efforts to restrict or regulate the practice. These legislative efforts and the corresponding regulatory actions by state boards have triggered FTC involvement. From a social policy perspective physician dispensing raises significant concerns of ethics, conflicts of interest, patient welfare and economics. Based upon social policy, physician dispensing for profit is not a practice which should be condoned or allowed to flourish.

Human Sexual Aggression: Social Policy Perspective

Human Sexual Aggression: Social Policy Perspective

Dependence, interdependence, and reciprocity after eighty

This article challenges the critics of social policy perspectives seeking to provide care in the community, taking issue with the generally jaundiced view of care giving and the exploitation of women. Based on quantitative and qualitative data from a study of the over eighties in rural U.K. (N = 125), the article looks at the low incidence of heavy dependency in the elderly population living at home and suggests that the preponderance of women in caring roles results from demographic and cultural factors. The experiences of caring spouses and caring daughters are explored in detail, stressing variation in the caring experience and gains as well as losses. Attention is drawn to the reciprocal and interdependent nature of caring relationships and a more differentiated approach to the study of care is urged.

Practice of Learning Disabilities as Social Policy

This research presents an analysis of learning disabilities from a social-policy perspective. The reading performance of three groups of elementary students was systematically measured during the spring of the school year: regular education students receiving no supplemental instructional services, regular education students receiving remedial Chapter 1 services, and students labeled as learning disabled. The measures consisted of Curriculum-Based Assessment procedures, following the format developed at the Institute for Research on Learning Disabilities at the University of Minnesota. Students' reading performance was compared across the three groups, including the means and semi-interquartile ranges. A discriminant function analysis was applied to predict group membership. The three groups were sorted by level of reading skill with (a) very different means, (b) minimum overlap, and (c) high accuracy in classification. The results support the notion that schools may be consistent in their decision making and allocation of service delivery on the basis of students' classroom achievement. Regardless of legal or scientific definition, it is argued that schools widely employ a social-policy definition of learning disabilities designed to serve students most deficient in achievement.

Policy Choices in Social Work Education: Market Model vs. Central Theory

This article assesses the consequences of what might be termed, from a social policy perspective, a “market model” of social work education. Because this model results in a highly decentralized and relatively unpredictable educational outcome, the author argues for renewed attention to a unitary theory for social work practice. The basis of this theoretical approach is drawn from the physical sciences and focuses on the nature of change as the central dynamic. An attempt is made to identify principles of change that illuminate and reinforce a fundamental social work perspective.

Vision and Research: The Social Policy Perspective of Kenneth W. Underwood

Vision and Research: The Social Policy Perspective of Kenneth W. Underwood

The Standard of Causation in the Mixed-Motive Title VII Action: A Social Policy Perspective

In this Article, Professor Brodin explores the causal-relation problem in individual employment discrimination suits alleging disparate treatment brought under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The effort in this Article is to define a theory of causation for the individual disparate treatment case that is consistent with the goals of title VII as well as with the realities and limitations of our adversary system of adjudication. Professor Brodin surveys the problem, traces the development of relevant case law and concludes with a proposal of causal analysis that separates issues of liability from those of remedy.

Shaping futures for women

This paper, written from a social policy perspective, is predicated on the author's assumption that every adult needs three anchors: work, family and friendship. It briefly examines some of the major future research reports, their premises and their failure to take into consideration altered social roles and altered relations between the sexes. The three-anchor framework is applied to economic, political and psychological roles and institutions in relation to needs, tasks and risks in life and family cycles. It juxtaposes some danger signs with hopeful signs in projecting future scenarios.

From Turbans to Inverted Triangles: South Asian Social Anthropology: Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives . David G. Mandelbaum. ; Robber Noblement: A Study of the Political System of the Sikh Jats . Joyce Pettigrew. ; Girl Students in Jaipur: A Study in Attitudes towards Family Life, Marriage, and Career . Cora Vreede-de Stuers. ; Kinship and

Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives. David G. Mandelbaum. Robber Noblement: A Study of the Political System of the Sikh Jats. Joyce Pettigrew. Girl Students in Jaipur: A Study in Attitudes Towards Family Life, Marriage, and Career. Cora Vreede-de Stuers. Kinship and Urbanization: White Collar Migrants in North India. Sylvia Vatuk. The Transformation of Sikh Society. Ethne K. Marenco.

Human Fertility in India. Social Components and Policy Perspectives

Human Fertility in India. Social Components and Policy Perspectives

Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives. David G. Mandelbaum

<i>Human Fertility in India: Social Components and Policy Perspectives.</i> David G. Mandelbaum

Human Fertility in India; Social Components and Policy Perspectives.

Human Fertility in India; Social Components and Policy Perspectives.