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"This journal brings together research that informs the fields of global social work, social development, and social welfare policy and practice. It serves as an outlet for manuscripts and brief reports of interdisciplinary applied research which advance knowledge about global threats to the well-being of individuals, groups, families and communities. This research spans the full range of problems including global poverty, food and housing insecurity, economic development, environmental safety, social determinants of health, maternal and child health, mental health, addiction, disease and illness, gender and income inequality, human rights and social justice, access to health care and social resources, strengthening care and service delivery, trauma, crises, and responses to natural disasters, war, violence, population movements and trafficking, war and refugees, immigration/migration, human trafficking, orphans and vulnerable children." --Publisher description, viewed SpringerLink, 21 July 2015.

Sociology --- Social Work. --- Social Welfare. --- Sociologia. --- Treball social. --- Política social. --- Social Change

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This book examines a familiar and contemporary social policy issue-the crisis besetting social care-but differs from usual accounts by including additional perspectives (philosophical, ethical and political) not often raised but nonetheless crucial to understanding the issue. Its central argument is that while a health/care divide dates back to legislative separation at the inception of the welfare state in the 1940s, the major cause of the current crisis has been the slow but insidious ideological and practical splitting off and fracturing of social care from other state welfare institutions, notably the NHS, and its consequent entrapment in the treacherous straits of 'profit and loss', self-interest and individualism. These issues and others, the book argues, contribute to the building of a strong case for bringing social care into the public sector. Towards the end, the book goes on to consider the impact, from 2020, of the Covid 19 pandemic on a caring crisis that was already well-established. The consequences of this global shock are still working through and are likely to be profound. Solutions, as the book describes, which were already being formulated prior to the arrival of the pandemic, are even more salient now. The book will therefore be of interest to students and researchers of social policy and public policy, health and social care professionals and policymakers - and users of social care themselves. Gillian Dalley is a social anthropologist and has been an independent researcher for more than a decade, completing most recently a project on the financial abuse of people lacking mental capacity, for Brunel University London, funded by the Dawes Trust. She is the author of Ideologies of Caring: Rethinking community and collectivism, and, in a long career, has worked for several London-based organisations including the King's Fund, the Policy Studies Institute and the Centre for Policy on Ageing, as well as working as a senior NHS quality manager, and as a researcher at the former MRC Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen in the early 1980s.

Sociology --- Social security law --- sociologie --- welvaartsstaat --- Social policy. --- Política social --- Política governamental --- Serveis socials --- Gran Bretanya

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This book is the result of this process and has the participation of teachers and students who are part of the Group for Studies, Research and Advisory in Social Policies (GEAPS) and the Center for Studies, Research and Social Practices (NUPEPS). It presents discussions of great importance for Social Work, insofar as they propose to reflect on Social Security in Brazil, bringing broader discussions such as: the financing and commodification of social policies; the historical trajectory of social control, especially in the field of health; and work management in the Unified Health System (SUS) in the context of productive restructuring. We also find in this collection texts that present research results that aimed to analyse in a more specific way the reality of the municipality of Campina Grande (PB), with regard to the implementation of the Family Health Strategy, based on the evaluation of professionals in the area; the concepts of STD / AIDS counselling for pregnant women by professionals in the Basic Family Health Units; and Civil Society Organizations serving people with disabilities.

Social security --- Public health --- Brazil --- Social policy. --- Seguridade Social --- Política Social Brasileira --- Programa Saúde da Família --- Saúde no Trabalho

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Social policies can transform the lives of the poor and marginalized, yet inequitable implementation often limits their access. Uneven Social Policies shifts the focus of welfare state analysis away from policy design and toward policy implementation. By examining variation in political motivations, state capacity, and policy legacies, it explains why some policies are implemented more effectively than others, why some deliver votes to incumbent governments while others do not, and why regionally elected executives block the implementation of some but not all national policies. Niedzwiecki explores this variation across provinces and municipalities by combining case studies with statistical analysis of conditional cash transfers and health policies in two decentralized countries, Argentina and Brazil. The analysis draws on original data gathered during fifteen months of field research that included more than 230 interviews with politicians and 140 with policy recipients.

Central-local government relations --- Marginalidad --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Political science --- Decentralization in government --- Federal government --- Políticas públicas --- Brazil --- Latin America --- Brasil --- América Latina --- Social policy. --- Política social

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Mental health policy. --- Mental health --- Mental health and state --- Mental health services --- State and mental health --- Medical policy --- Government policy --- Salut mental --- Política sanitària --- Política social --- Política farmacèutica --- Reforma dels serveis sanitaris --- Salut pública --- Higiene mental --- Salut emocional --- Psiquiatria --- Estrès (Psicologia) --- Psicopatologia --- Psiquiatria social --- Realització personal --- Assistència psiquiàtrica --- Equipaments de salut mental --- Malalties mentals --- Treball social en salut mental