Suchergebnisse

Active welfare -- Agency -- Altruism -- Assitance and payments -- Asylum seeker -- Autonomy -- Basic income -- Benefit -- Beveridgian welfare -- Bismarckian model -- Black economy -- Body -- Bureaucracy -- Capabilities -- Capitalism -- Care/carer/caring -- Categorical benefits -- Child allowances -- Citizenship -- Class -- Claw-back -- Collectivism -- Commodification and decommodification -- Communitarian -- Community -- Comparative social policy -- Conditionality -- Convergence -- Corporation -- Crisis of welfare -- Critical junctures -- Democracy -- Dependency -- Deserving/undeserving -- Disability -- Discretion -- Discrimination -- Diswelfares -- Division of labour -- Earnings -- Eligibility -- Employment -- Entitlement -- Environmentalism -- Equality -- Ethnicity -- Fabianism -- Families of nations -- Family -- Feminism -- Fiscal welfare -- Flexicurity -- Functionings -- Gender -- Globalization -- Global social policy -- Health -- Household -- Human capital.

"Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry explains the origin of the word, discusses its relationship to the social sciences describes its relevance to social policy and how widespread its use is, and outlines some of the key thinkers and research on the topic and gives suggestions for further reading. Making it easy to understand and use the most important ideas in the area, this is an essential companion for all students taking social policy courses."--Provided by publisher.

1. Welfare regimes, health care regimes and maternity services and policy : a comparative perspective / Patricia Kennedy, Naonori Kodate and Nadine Reibling -- 2. New Zealand / Riz Firestone. [et al.] -- 3. Ireland / Patricia Kennedy -- 5. United States of America / Christine H. Morton and Megan M. Henley -- 5. Australia / Meredith McIntyre -- 6. Scotland / Helen Cheyne -- 7. Canada / Louise Marie Roth and Amanda M. Lubold -- 8. Japan / Rieko Kishi Fukuzawa and Naonori Kodate -- 9. Italy / Marina Scavini and Chiara Molinari -- 10. Germany / Nadine Reibling and Monika Mischke -- 11. The Netherlands / Monika Ewa Kaminska -- 12. Sweden / Jan Thomas and Ingegerd Hildingsson.

"This book is the first comprehensive international overview of maternity services. Drawing on concepts of risk and social citizenship, it explores the relationship between welfare regimes and health policy by comparing and contrasting provision for childbearing women. Each substantive chapter focuses on a different country, presenting detailed contextual information on health care provision, maternity interventions and birth outcomes there. They discuss key issues such as birth rates and fertility patterns, the role of patient choice, attitudes to place of birth and maternity entitlements among others, and the countries covered represent diverse welfare regimes, including Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. An extended introduction and a conclusion draw the book together and place it in the context of the literature on comparative welfare regimes. It is an important reference for students and academics interested in comparative social policy, health services research, and maternity services and policies"--Provided by publisher

Women comprise a minority of the prison population, representing 10.6% of the prison population in Ireland in 2020. An issue of pressing concern is the over-representation of minority ethnic women among female prisoners. In Ireland, Irish Traveller women are 22 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Traveller women. Their risk of imprisonment is greater than Traveller men who are over-represented among male prisoners. Traveller women in contact with the criminal justice system are likely to have experienced extreme deprivation, social exclusion, and current and historical/intergenerational discrimination. This article draws on evidence from published literature and a qualitative study undertaken by the authors to examine the vulnerabilities of Traveller women in prison in Ireland and the multiple and complex reasons for their over-representation in prison. To improve the situation of Traveller women in prison, the UN Bangkok Rules can be used to guide the development of relevant legislation, procedures, policy, and action plans. Traveller women in prison must not be overlooked in the implementation of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, which places a legal obligation in Ireland on prison authorities to promote equality, prevent discrimination, and protect the human rights of all affected by their policies and plans.

This article presents some of the findings from the original research carried out with asylum seeking and refugee women in Ireland who were pregnant or who had recently given birth. The explosion in numbers in Ireland from 1998 onwards has been such that this group now comprises more than one in five of every birth in the country's three major maternity hospitals, all based in Dublin. The article explores the background reasons for the major increase in recent years of this group of women. It discusses the difficult circumstances encountered by women who must engage with a system of maternity care unused to such complex needs, amidst a general policy climate of uncertainty and even hostility towards asylum seekers. The research findings contribute to the feminist literature on maternity and challenge us to examine the way in which globalization is impacting on women as mothers and the need for challenging Western states anew on the development of a more coherent model of maternity care in response to the needs of such women.