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The reasons for health planning are obvious and compelling: people demand better facilities for health care and health services. At some point, the classic system of mixed free enterprise and charity in the provision of services and facilities fails to meet popular demands, while at the same time, in a democratic system, the popular demand becomes a significant political factor. At that point, some level of government must arrange for provision -- there must be sufficient hospital beds, sufficient numbers of doctors, nurses and other personnel, sufficient educational facilities to train them, sophisticated technical equipment in the facilities, etc. The question then comes up of how many hospital beds are sufficient, how much personnel is sufficient, how they should be distributed, what means should be developed for an efficient distribution, how should new services and facilities be related to old ones, how should all this be paid for, and so on.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). These networks encourage the rapid distribution of research by publishing submitted abstracts and soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. Journals, publishers, and other cooperating institutions provide working papers for distribution through SSRN's eLibrary and abstracts for publication in SSRN's electronic journals. Networks encourage communication among readers, authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. The SSRN eLibrary consists of an abstract database containing abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format. Access to the database and collection is free; some services may require registration or fees

Interest has grown in the past few years about the place of social work in science. Questions remain, such as whether social work should be considered a science, and if so, where it fits into the constellation of sciences. This article attempts to shed light on these questions. After briefly considering past and present constructions of science and reflecting on views of science within the social work profession over time, we present an argument for how social work contributes to predominant questions facing science today through its unique ability to draw together and integrate knowledge from a variety of disciplines. Finally, we address how the profession can best prepare the coming generation of social workers to operate to their full potential in the current transdisciplinary world of science.

Specialized journals examine the teaching and learning of the social sciences in Higher Education . These include, for example, the highly regarded Teaching Sociology, or, more recently the Journal of Political Science Education, Journal of Legal Education and International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, to name but a few. These journals capture a significant amount of knowledge and experience. However, there is little coherence in terms of research and a lack of a well-developed academic sub-discipline around Higher Education in the social sciences. Furthermore, most of the discourses within the cited journals.

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