Welfare Trends Research Articles

Sources of Welfare-State Support in Denmark: Self-Interest or Way of Life?

(1992). Sources of Welfare-State Support in Denmark: Self-Interest or Way of Life? International Journal of Sociology: Vol. 22, Welfare Trends in the Scandinavian Countries, pp. 25-48.

Welfare Trends among the Yoruba in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Anthropometric Evidence

Analysis indicates that the Yoruba were taller than other West African peoples in the early nineteenth century. Disease, workloads, and environmental or genetic factors explain little of this differential. Rather, it appears due to a superior nutritional status made possible by Yoruba social structures, in particular, Yoruba towns. Yoruba stature declined both absolutely and relatively over the forty years corresponding to the collapse of the Oyo Empire. Regression analysis suggests a systematic relationship between these two events.

Child Welfare Legislation in Denmark: Trends in Child Welfare over the Past Decade

AbstractThis paper deals with the Danish Child Welfare Law, which was passed in 1974 as part of an integrated welfare law aiming at decentralization of decision making in local government, and maximum citizen participation.The law provides for counselling, recommendations and injunctions in connection with counselling, appointment of personal guidance officers, and taking children into care. The greater part of decision making is made in co-operation with parents. The few cases of removal of a child from the home without parental consent are conducted under the auspices of the local council welfare committee, presided over by a judge. Parents are given access and must be heard. Parents have wide rights of appeal.

Social Science History, “Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity,” ed. Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, 6, (Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, Fall, 1982). Pp. 188.

Social Science History, “Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity,” ed. Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, 6, (Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, Fall, 1982). Pp. 188. - Volume 18 Issue 1

Exploring the Uses of Data on Height: The Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity

Historians and historical economists have made much progress during the past half century in reconstructing long-term patterns of economic growth. The development of national income accounting techniques provided measures of gross national product and gross national product per capita in both constant and current dollars for the United States and various other countries that extend back to the first half of the nineteenth century. By providing information on the overall performance of the economy and on the performance of its principal industrial sectors and geographic regions, these measures have succinctly characterized the pattern of economic change in the United States, England, France, and several other European nations for periods of up to a century and a half. They have provided a scale against which such developments as urbanization, technological change, and the impact of various governmental policies can be judged. The new information has often led to important reinterpretations of major historical eras. The discovery that the rate of growth of manufacturing declined during the Civil War decade, for example, led to a searching reexamination of the thesis that the Civil War gave an unprecedented impetus to the industrialization of the United States. The disaggregation of the national accounts to the state level produced the unanticipated finding that during the twenty years leading up to the Civil War the South grew at least as rapidly as the North.

Exploring the Uses of Data on Height: The Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity

Exploring the Uses of Data on Height: The Analysis of Long-Term Trends in Nutrition, Labor Welfare, and Labor Productivity

Childrearing, work, and welfare: Research issues

Recent trends in childrearing, work, and welfare are described, revealing a basic change in th~ division of labor among parents. This is interpreted as a "role-shift gap" that generates pressure on the state to subsidize child care. Specific interrelationships between childrearing, work, and welfare are examined, incorporating findings from relevant studies, and further research is suggested. The need to link research and policy is stressed.

Trend of Social Welfare in The Present-day Society

Trend of Social Welfare in The Present-day Society

Trends in Social Welfare. James Farndale

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsTrends in Social Welfare. James Farndale John S. MorganJohn S. Morgan Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Social Service Review Volume 40, Number 3Sep., 1966 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/641958 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1966 University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

New trends in maternal and child welfare

New trends in maternal and child welfare

The International Setting of Reconstruction

UNDER the general title "Looking Forward", the Royal Institute of International Affairs is publishing a series of pamphlets on the international aspects of reconstruction, which are intended to stimulate thought and discussion, and to aim at presenting problems rather than to solve them. In the first of these, "Britain and the World" (Pp. 60. 1s. net), the Hon. H. A. Wyndham gives an outline of reconstruction problems; the general background in Europe and the Middle East, and such factors as freedom of trade and migration in the nineteenth century and up to 1939 are discussed in the first part, and Britain's position in the post-war world is considered in the second part. Some home problems, such as industry and its organization and control, demobilization, exports, social insurance, housing and agriculture, health and educational services are briefly indicated in the third. The second chapter indicates some of the implications of the Atlantic Charter in such matters as relief and rehabilitation in Europe and the Middle East, the significance of the Hot Springs Conference, the potentialities of the Middle East Supply Centre, the problem of Germany and the special problems of the British Empire, such as the co-ordination of foreign policy and defence and trends in colonial welfare and development. Although necessarily sketchy, the pamphlet succeeds in indicating the relation of particular problems to the larger issues, and the problems of home and international policy, on the solution of which Britain's economic stability, social security and future prosperity depend.