Economia civile

efficienza, equità, felicità pubblica

Molti paradossi del mondo globale - disuguaglianze territoriali e individuali, crescita senza occupazione, aumento del reddito pro capite ma non della qualità della vita - hanno più a che fare con situazioni di scarsità sociale che materiale. Eppure le due visioni dominanti del rapporto tra sfera economica ...

El Estado social

En una primera parte se aborda la investigación teórica del Estado social conectándola con la teoría de los fines del Estado, analizando los posibles antecedentes y exponiendo un primer intento descriptivo. Posteriormente, se estudia su incidencia en las relaciones Estado-Sociedad, en la sociedad post-industrial, en ...

Exclusión social y estado del bienestar

Exclusión social y estado de bienestar.- Tendencias en la desigualdad de la renta.- Las políticas redistributivas.- La pobreza: problemas conceptuales y de medición.- Factores explicativos de la pobreza.- principales tendencias de la pobreza.- Las políticas contra la pobreza: conceptos básicos.- Las políticas contra la pobreza ...

Public health

what it is and how it works

This book is a straightforward introduction to the complex, multidimensional field of public health and how it functions in modern day America.

Generating and sustaining nonprofit earned income

a guide to succesful enterprise strategies

Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures, this comprehensive guide identifies best practices for generating a reliable income stream and ultimately reducing nonprofit organizations' dependence on traditional sources of funding. Edited by renowned scholar and consultant Sharon Oster and Cynthia Massarsky and Samantha Beinhacker, deputy directors of ...

Quality health care

a guide to developing and using indicators

Written by an internationally-recognized expert in the field of quality management, this book will serve as your guide for planning and implementing a successful quality measurement program in your healthcare facility. It begins by presenting an overview of the context for quality measurement, the forces ...

Welfare state change

towards a Third Way?

Contents/contributors Part 1: Policy Contexts and Concepts 1 Rebecca Surender: Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way 2 Stuart White: Welfare Philosophy and the Third Way 3 Giuliano Bonoli and Martin Powell: One Third Way or Several? Part ...

Redes sociales y construcción comunitaria

creando (con)textos para una acción ecológica

En un tiempo en que el pensamiento único y la tecnocracia parecen querer colonizar el complejo y concurrido universo de la acción social,este libro reivindica la necesidad de recuperar,a través de las prácticas comunitarias,la capacidad crítica,creativa,comprometida y transformadora del trabajo ...

Social Europe

living standars and welfare states

Social Europe analyses the diverse dynamics of the lives of people across Europe. It is the first quantitative analysis of its kind to make a systematic comparison of life chances across the fifteen countries of the EU. This wide perspective enables the researchers to illustrate ...

A handbook of comparative social policy

The current context of social policy is one in which many of the old certainties of the past have been eroded. The predominantly inward-looking, domestic preoccupation of social policy has made way for a more integrated, international and outward approach to analysis which looks beyond ...

New risk, new welfare

the transformation of the European welfare state

This book, based on brand new data from a major study and long-standing collaboration between a number of prominent European scholars, provides a fresh perspective on the future of the welfare state across the EU. Through detailed case-study analysis, it analyses the emergence of new ...

Tendencias en desigualdad y exclusión social

Tercer Foro sobre Tendencias Sociales

Este libro es una segunda edición ampliada y actualizada de la obra que con el mismo título se publicó en 1999. En el volumen actual se han incorporado nuevos capítulos y se han puesto al día los que se habían incluido en la primera edición ...

La nueva regulación legal del régimen especial de trabajadores autonómos

LA NUEVA REGULACIÓN LEGAL DEL RÉGIMEN ESPECIAL DE TRABAJADORES AUTÓNOMOS supone una monografía eminentemente práctica que pretende resolver, de un modo fácil y sencillo, las dudas que, respecto a la relación jurídica de Seguridad Social, puedan ofrecerse a los distintos colectivos de trabajadores por cuenta ...

Operations research and health care

a handbook of methods and applications

The decision technologies, tools and theories of Operations Research and Management Sciences have long been applied to a wide range of issues and problems within health care. To date, however, there has been no single handbook that synthesizes the wide applicability of such techniques. The ...

Saving social security

a balanced approach

While everyone agrees that Social Security is a vital and necessary government program, there have been widely divergent plans for reforming it. Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag, two of the nation#s foremost economists, propose a reform plan that would rescue the program ...

The price of smoking

What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a ...

Directivos y mandos en materia de seguridad y salud en el trabajo

El papel desempeñado por los puestos de dirección y mando en la empresa,cuando se enfrentan a la realidad de la prevención de riesgos laborales y a su normativa reguladora,constituye hoy día uno de los temas con más trascendencia y complejidad en la materia ...

International handbook on the economics of education

This book is unique as it presents an academic and a practical aspect on managing pension funds to clarify the global debate on social security. The authors establish the basic choices in designating any system to help policy makers develop the system that achieves their ...

The economics of an aging society

This text provides an in-depth analysis of the economic and policy issues associated with individual and population aging. It has a strong policy focus based on demographic and economic analysis, making it both accessible and challenging to readers with limited mathematical background. The discussion concentrates ...

Developing an annuity market in Europe

On the premise that pension provision in Europe will dramatically change over the next few decades, this book concentrates on the funded component of pension wealth, and specifically on annuities # financial products that, on the basis of actuarial equivalence, allow the conversion of wealth into ...