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  • Combining Work and Care

    Carer Leave and Related Employment Policies in International Context

    by Shingou Ikeda, Kate O'Loughlin, Tatjana Rakar, Maša Filipovič Hrast, Valentina Hlebec, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska, Jolanta Perek-Bialas, Alison Williams, Linnéa Aldman, Eva Sennemark, Elizabeth Hanson, Camille Allard, Emilia Leinonen, Jacquie Eales, Katja Knauthe, Andreas Hoff ...
    Series series Sustainable Care
    Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The proportion of employees with caring responsibilities is growing and, as a result, policies that support working carers are becoming increasingly important.Written and informed by national experts, this is the first publication to provide a detailed examination of the development and implementation of carer leave policies and policies in ... Read more

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  • Care Technologies for Ageing Societies

    An International Comparison

    by James Wright, Tomoko Wakui, Meryl Lovarini, Kate O'Loughlin, Lindy Clemson, Andreas Hoff, Bill Pottharst, Arlene Astell, Janet Fast ...
    Series series Sustainable Care
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal for solving the ‘crisis’ in care and delivering positive outcomes.Exploring the role of technology in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, this book examines how technology contributes effectively to ... Read more

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  • Where to from Here?

    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Interprofessional Social Work

    Effective Collaborative Approaches

    by Anne Quinney, Trish Hafford-Letchfield ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a wide range of other professions as part of their daily work. It is essential therefore that social workers can work effectively and collaboratively ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care

    by John Harris, Vicky White ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1,800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on social work as a significant area within this field. Covering social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics overlapping with health and education, this is the most up-to-date ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Healthcare Management

    by Kieran Walshe, Judith Smith ...
    A comprehensive, research-based introduction to healthcare management, covering healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Evidence-Based Policy-Making in Canada

    by Shaun P. Young ...
    Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues associated with how government decisions get made in the interests of the people. The concept and practice of evidence-based policy-making insists that properly developed public policy draws on the best available evidence. This book considers how governments in Canada have historically interacted with ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy

    by Catherine Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book examines the implications of welfare policy for energy poverty and engages with key conceptual debates at the forefront of energy demand research. Academic work on energy poverty has rarely been brought into conversation with practice-theory-based approaches to energy use and sustainability. This book reveals how novel insights can be made visible through combining these ... Read more

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  • Aspirations, Access and Attainment

    International perspectives on widening participation and an agenda for change

    Edited by Neil Murray, Christopher Klinger ...
    It is perhaps ironic that as the global financial crisis has, in some cases, led governments and institutions to pull back from and/or set more modest goals and associated funding around widening participation, there is an ever-growing sense that the ideals buttressing the widening participation movement are becoming more universally acknowledged by educators across the globe. That acknowledgement ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

    Edited by Rense Nieuwenhuis, Wim Van Lancker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such ... Read more

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  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD