Author : James A. Lovat-Fraser
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354000447
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Sagan A.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9289050373
No two markets for voluntary health insurance (VHI) are identical. All differ in some way because they are heavily shaped by the nature and performance of publicly financed health systems and by the contexts in which they have evolved. This volume contains short structured profiles of markets for VHI in 34 countries in Europe. These are drawn from European Union member states plus Armenia Iceland Georgia Norway the Russian Federation Switzerland and Ukraine. The book is aimed at policy-makers and researchers interested in knowing more about how VHI works in practice in a wide range of contexts. Each profile written by one or more local experts identifies gaps in publicly-financed health coverage describes the role VHI plays outlines the way in which the market for VHI operates summarises public policy towards VHI including major developments over time and highlights national debates and challenges. The book is part of a study on VHI in Europe prepared jointly by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. A companion volume provides an analytical overview of VHI markets across the 34 countries.
Author : Susan Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1784424803
A beautifully illustrated history of Britain's most revered and valued institution: the NHS. In March 2020 the UK went into lockdown to help contain the spread of COVID-19 and protect the NHS from one of the greatest threats that it has faced in its 72-year history. Today more than ever, all eyes are on this beloved institution as it continues to innovate and adapt to meet the challenges of providing national healthcare in the modern world. In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Susan Cohen traces the history of the NHS from its establishment after the Second World War, through seven decades of changing management and organisation, often in controversial political circumstances, right up to the current COVID-19 crisis. Including personal recollections from healthcare professionals on the frontline, as well as the patients in their care, this important and timely volume offers a comprehensive overview of one of the world's most remarkable healthcare systems.
Author : Jackie Gulland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137605642
This book uses previously unknown archive materials to explore the meaning of the term ‘incapable of work’ over a hundred years (1911–present). Nowadays, people claiming disability benefits must undergo medical tests to assess whether or not they are capable of work. Media reports and high profile campaigns highlight the problems with this system and question whether the process is fair. These debates are not new and, in this book, Jackie Gulland looks at similar questions about how to assess people’s capacity for work from the beginning of the welfare state in the early 20th century. Amongst many subject areas, she explores women’s roles in the domestic sphere and how these were used to consider their capacity for work in the labour market. The book concludes that incapacity benefit decision making is really about work: what work is, what it is not, who should do it, who should be compensated when work does not provide a sufficient income and who should be exempted from any requirement to look for it.
Author : Michael Beenstock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136625755
First published in 1986, Insurance for Unemployment proposes a radical approach to the reform of unemployment and social insurance. The book develops the ethical, economic and actuarial case for the proposed reforms, whereby the individual pays the contributions which reflect the unemployment risk that he wishes to insure. Such ideas provide a libertarian alternative to the social security systems that have been adopted by most countries in the world based on Beveridge’s conception of social insurance, and the book provides an original basis for privatising unemployment insurance. Conventional acceptance of the welfare state is challenged, while the book stands as a landmark in relating market principles to issues of social policy.
Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 3110434466
Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance.
Author : Anne Digby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521524513
A socio-economic history of medical practice from the first voluntary hospital to national health insurance.
Author : Great Britain
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Health insurance
ISBN :
Author : Francis G. P. NEISON
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Fraternal organizations
ISBN :
Author : Chris Renwick
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141980355
"This ... new history tells the story of one [of] the greatest transformations in British intellectual, social and political life: the creation of the welfare state, from the Victorian workhouse, where you had to be destitute to receive help, to a moment just after the Second World War, when government embraced responsibility for people's housing, education, health and family life, a commitment that was unimaginable just a century earlier. Though these changes were driven by developments in different and sometimes unexpected currents in British life, they were linked by one over-arching idea: that through rational and purposeful intervention, government can remake society. It was an idea that, during the early twentieth century, came to inspire people across the political spectrum."--Jacket
