Examples of welfare

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A systematic review of the health, social and financial impacts of welfare-rights advice delivered in health care settings.
Prescribing welfare benefits advice in primary care : is it a health intervention, and if so, what sort ?
What they have to give depends largely on the resources made available to them by the welfare system.
The providers of health and welfare are less sure of themselves and the services they provide.
Different countries with contrasting welfare state structures have developed different strategies for organising care and services for people with care needs.
The filial responsibility score was included in the regressions of welfare state orientation and of preferences for care.
Expressed ' preferences for long-term care ' and ' welfare state orientation ' are taken as behavioural intentions.
The service has become something of a symbol for enlightened welfare intervention.
Women, welfare and the private sphere ; the problem of meeting long-term care needs.
They are followed by a fascinating chapter on the welfare regime and its history.
Several typologies of welfare regimes have been described.
Although there are clear differences between the three types of welfare regimes, similarities are also present.
Additionally, environmental changes not directly related to climate, such as volcanic eruptions, which may have impacted personal welfare in the region, are also discussed.
Instead, immigrants should be incorporated in the welfare programs already in place.
Up until 1945, the optional referendum represented an efficient veto point for groups opposing the welfare state to dilute state-interventionist social policies.
The substantive response to welfare spending that breaches the cap threshold is entirely a matter of political selection.
Traditional macrotheories regarding the determinants of the welfare state do not tell us the whole story.
By seeking support from friends, family, or local charities, or by going to work, most could avoid welfare.
Recently, the nation as a whole has seen falls in welfare and rising work levels among poor adults, in part due to welfare reform.
The pensioners' organisations that emerged as the welfare state matured have changed policy-making and gained considerable influence.
Leaders in many affluent societies, however, have sought to implement increasingly adventurous welfare reforms since the early 1990s.
Parties of the left have predominately framed welfare reform in terms of the imperatives of globalisation.
Furthermore, welfare effects may be both undesirable and desirable.
A measure of welfare would ideally incorporate information on both.
The impact of welfare-gender regimes is measured by the difference between post-government and pre-government discretionary time.
With the rise of the new institutionalism, institutional fragmentation has become much discussed as a causal factor behind welfare state variations.
Here individual interests lead to a failure to punish, even when group welfare would be increased by such sanctioning.
Likewise, our concern for the welfare of the criminal can outweigh our obligation to annul the crimes of that criminal.
The nature of the welfare regime seems to have been very important.
Many older people far from being a ' burden ' were vital to the survival and welfare of their families.
At the same time, cultural influences and different welfare-state models continue to produce divergent national patterns.
The awful irony of these kinds of community initiatives is that they are often co-opted as a justification for the dismantling of the welfare state.
Participants were drawn from various existing natural groups such as neighbourhood groups, religious bodies and welfare recipients living in proximity.
Most citizen advocates did not then become advocates from a sense of altruism or some general, selfless concern for the welfare of more vulnerable others.
In fact, there is a widespread consensus that the riots in 1966 and 1967 prompted major developments in social welfare.
On the one hand, employers became less interested in women as the progress of welfare legislation reduced their cost advantage.
In the following we do not discuss in detail pensions policy, family policy or health and social welfare.
The first section of the essays deals with general issues to do with social welfare.
The contested nature of contemporary welfare analysis has, not surprisingly, had a strong impact on historical interpretation of welfare state development.
They can, for example, have welfare as a goal.
The first and overriding responsibility of any physician is to the welfare of the individual patient.
Indeed, the unemployed usually have access to welfare or unemployment benefits, which are forms of state redistribution.
With this reorganization, a new department was formed to deal with all aspects of the social welfare of the inhabitants.
In these circumstances working families needed state welfare in order to maintain their standard of living.
A graduated system of social welfare was developed.
Indeed, the effects of an unregulated private insurance market may not be very serious in welfare states where there is protection available for everyone.
However, all technology raises questions about its real contributions to human welfare.
Likewise, there should be an expectation that students continue their preclinical work with the same (or a different) social welfare agency or other community activity.
Does she want to claim that only the child expected to have maximal welfare, however she would define it, should be born?
Clearly, strict regard must be paid to animal welfare, under the supervision of licensing bodies, as well as to the objectives of the research.
The impact of legal rights on citizenship experience thus varies significantly depending upon access to other forms of resources in the mixed economy of welfare.
We call this type of double dividend 'welfare double dividend'.
By the revelation principle, the regulator maximizes expected welfare, subject to the constraint that truthtelling is incentive compatible.
Since a/ 0, lowering the audit rate reduces monitoring costs and raises welfare.
In the quality-oflife literature, agents' welfare may include additional variables, such as natural resources, property rights, institutions, and the level of democracy.
Welfare-equivalent and wealthequivalent incomes at least have the virtue of being defined in reference to the actual consumption path.
In any case, the contribution to welfare can be expressed in terms of current values.
Let me first indicate how the second welfare theorem applies.
Without lump sum transfers, solutions to traditional accounting models founded on utility-based social welfare functions may be unattainable.
The design and implementation of the mechanism for paying them for compensation in such a case again is considered a way of maximizing total welfare.
If economic growth does indeed 'take care' of the environment, the diversion of resources from environmental protection to investment may be welfare-enhancing.
The public-good effect of the stock (as biodiversity or existence value), adding to the social welfare, is not part of the objective of the manager.
Moreover, the burden of the welfare loss falls mainly on the farmers.
Our study tests this and uses the results to draw policy conclusions for improving the welfare of herders.
On the other hand, the removal of the supplementarity condition improves the welfare by allowing cheaper foreign abatement.
Although non-market effects will certainly add to expected damages, reliable estimates of the magnitude of the resulting welfare impacts do not yet exist.
The divergence between the 1-state farmer's and the optimal farmer's welfare levels shows the cost of the threat of species invasion.
What implications does the inclusion of environmental pollution have for the traditional analysis of the welfare economics of regional integration?
Nothing of interest happens to material welfare benefits since the only change in the model is a reduction in emission factors.
The first two rows of table 5 show the distribution of welfare benefits and costs across urban and rural households.
When pollution is included, the distribution of welfare deteriorates.
Once agricultural effects are considered, rural households enjoy welfare gains up to a 10 per cent abatement rate.
Thus, we do not expect major impacts on consumer's welfare either.
The result is the classic tradeoff between environmental quality and economic welfare.
The counter-intuitive consequence could instead provide a case for an objective list account of welfare.
There is an issue of whether all failures to use resources to contribute to the general welfare constitute such a misallocation given opportunity costs.
Production systems that do not use the market will be less able to reward persons' contribution to the overall welfare.
The relative welfares of the two countries will be proportional to their bargaining powers, and individually they will rise if the target is increased.
Is this interest nostalgia for welfare's 'golden age' or a rational commitment to radical reform?
On the same assumption, however, explaining welfare's normativity is a challenge that list theories must also face if they are to be understood as accounts of the concept.
Equal justice is an integral part of the general public welfare and funding equal justice is a fundamental obligation of state and county government.
He claims modern welfare has dissuaded the poor from doing this, but 'its potentialities are very real and deserving of greater development'.
Everyone loves the welfare of the city with the same love which they ordinarily feel for their own families.
Also, as the government's information agency, they could identify and judge possible welfare recipients.
People in institutions with few of their own economic resources often receive social welfare which is paid directly to the nursing home.
The welfare state has a large spectrum of linkages to the development of cities.
The system represents a minutely balanced interplay of interests between state and individuals, political right and left, church and state, private and public welfare.
The welfare state has a significant impact on the shaping of actors in the city.
Cities and other local authorities have been viewed as being less important in the implementation of welfare policies.
They were selectivists rather than universalists in their approach to welfare spending.
He noted that different pieces of the solution will lie in the medical realm and in the social welfare realm.
With their dissolution the health and welfare functions would have to be distributed between the newer health and social services administrative entities.
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