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Digital exclusion: potential implications for social work education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
QAA Subject Benchmark 5.9 requires social work students to demonstrate the ability to have a critical understanding of the social impact of ICT, including an awareness of the impact of the 'digital divide'.
Banks S., Oliver M., Sue Watling
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The Rise of Welfare Service States - Conceptual challenges of an ambiguous welfare settlement and the need for new policy research

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2019
Welfare states are changing. They differ in the way they provide their citizenry with social rights, material resources and support. Contemporary transformations of European welfare states, however, have - apart from significant differences - a common ...
Jean-Michel Bonvin   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of workday characteristics on perceived stress and time pressure among nurses in Finnish long-term care – a cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research
Background Aging populations and nursing workforce issues are causing challenges for long-term care globally, and therefore, improving the work-related wellbeing and retention of nurses is crucial.
Visa Väisänen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The regulatory rescue of the Welfare State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The regulatory state and the welfare state can be described in terms of contrasting pairs of ‘types of policies’ and ‘types of politics’ following Lowi (1972).
Mabbett, Deborah
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Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Healthcare use of young Finnish adults with mental disorders – profiles and profile membership determinants

open access: yesBMC Primary Care
Background Comprehensive, timely, and integrated primary care services have been proposed as a response to the increased demand for mental health and substance use services especially among young people.
Visa Väisänen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dragers van het vangnet. De publieke rol van Nederlandse sociale diensten (1980-1998)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2019
This article examines the public role of Dutch social service organizations during the 1980s and 1990s, amidst the so-called ‘crisis of the welfare state’. The story focuses on the association for directors of social service organizations, DIVOSA, which
Hans Rodenburg
doaj   +1 more source

Counting Is Not Enough: Investing in Qualitative Case Reviews for Practice Improvement in Child Welfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Outlines the value of quality case service reviews in child welfare systems, requirements for building and sustaining a robust process and adapting it under limited state budgets, and recommendations for jurisdictions, initiators, and national ...
Daniel Torres   +5 more
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what can we learn from the provision of childcare in rural China? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper explores whether the co-production model is more effective than the government-centric model in the provision of rural child welfare services in rural China. What are the processes and patterns of co-production in service provision? The paper
Deng, Guosheng   +2 more
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