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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women's Issues, Poverty, and Human Service Organizations written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9290612126
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Integrating Poverty and Gender Into Health Programmes written by World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although poverty and gender significantly influence health and socio-economic development, health professionals are not always adequately prepared to address such issues in their work. This publication, one of a set of modules intended for use in pre-service and in-service training of health professionals in the Western Pacific Region, focuses on the inter-relationship between poverty and health, including definitions of poverty and its multiple dimensions; indicators of poverty including methods of determining the prevalence of poverty and inequality within a community; how the health care system can address issues of poverty, with a special focus on low-income women and those from other marginalised or vulnerable groups.
Author : Jennifer R. Jewell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Development of Community Organizations by Poor Women in China and the United States written by Jennifer R. Jewell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The status of women throughout the world continues to be a position of inferiority despite recent strides in equality. The advances between the sexes is often negated as wealth inequality between the poor and rich continues to widen, disproportionally affecting women and their families. Some women have addressed these social ills by constructing or engaging in community organizations that challenge the oppression and discrimination faced by their communities. Some of these organizations provide direct services for individuals discarded by society, while others target the systemic issues that perpetuate social inequalities. The aims of this exploratory study were to explore (a) the conditions that prompted the formation of the women's organizations, (b) the experiences of poor women who develop and lead community organizations in China and the United States, and (c) and the affects of engagement of community work on their accumulation and/or depletion of capital. Framed by feminist epistemology, the data for this study was derived from semi-structured in-depth interviews with 16 poor women who related their experiences as initial developers and leaders in community organizations. Twelve women from the United States and four women from China participated in the study during the summer and fall of 2007. Data analysis included the use of qualitative and descriptive methods by using an inductive approach geared toward identifying general patterns. By providing invaluable accounts of their personal experience, this study suggests poor women, who engage in community work, employ various strategies for capital accumulation for themselves and their communities. Yet, because of their neglected status in society, many of the participants had to shed the bonds of internalized oppression, which became possible through the critical consciousness-rising activities used in their community work. Despite sociopolitical-cultural differences between the two samples, both groups were about exchange and negotiate capital for the benefit of their families. Differences between the organizations in China and United States were explored. Because of the dearth of research on community organizations by poor women, future research is needed to further explore the experiences of these dynamic women. The women reflected on the many benefits of engaging in community work for both themselves and their communities. Social work needs to again embrace this method. Specifically, social work educators should incorporate knowledge and skills about community organization methods into curriculum because of the success and benefits to marginalized communities and individuals. Dilemmas arising in cross-national research were also discussed.
Author : Heidi I. Hartmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135803161
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Women, Work, and Poverty written by Heidi I. Hartmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how welfare reform has affected women living at the poverty level Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women’s poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance. Women, Work, and Poverty illuminates the changes in the causes of women’s poverty following welfare reform in the United States, using up-to-date research that’s both qualitative and quantitative. Taking racial and ethnic diversity into account, the book’s contributors examine new findings on the feminization of poverty, the role of children and the lack of child care as an obstacle to employment, labor market policies that can reduce poverty and improve gender wage equality, sex and race segregation in the labor market, and the low quality of jobs available to low income women. Women, Work, and Poverty examines: marriage, motherhood, and work pay equity and living wage reforms community resources welfare status and child care acquiring higher education advancing women of color income security repaying debt after divorce gender differences in spendable income women’s job loss Women, Work, and Poverty is an invaluable aid for academics working in social work, social policy, women’s studies, economics, sociology, and political science, and for policy researchers, anti-poverty activists, and women’s leaders.
Author : Cesar A. Perales
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780866566841
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Women, Health, and Poverty written by Cesar A. Perales and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical new volume takes a hard look at the well-being of poor women in North America. It provides a rare opportunity to focus on one of the most pressing, but neglected social issues of our time--the injurious health consequences of impoverishment among women. A distinguished group of experts reviews the adequacy of our social and health policies and comments on a wide range of issues relating to poverty, gender, and health. Topics include the diversity in the population of poor women, the health and safety conditions of the work environments of working-poor, and factors that influence health conditions among poor and racial/ethnic women.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309452961
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241563745
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Human Rights, Health, and Poverty Reduction Strategies written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task of addressing poverty, health and human rights cannot be handled by any single global institution and requires rigorous interdisciplinary and coordinated action. This is why the WHO and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have worked together with a range of stakeholders to develop this guide. It is intended as a tool for health policymakers to design, implement and monitor a poverty reduction strategy through a human rights-based approach. It contains practical guidance and suggestions as well as good practice examples from around the world.
Author : Swapna Mukhopadhyay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women's Health, Public Policy, and Community Action written by Swapna Mukhopadhyay and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academics And Activists Working In The Area Of Community And Reproductive Health And Women`S Issues Examine Various Aspects Around The Central Theme Of Women`S Health. Useful For All Those Interested In Women`S Reproductive Health Issues In The Context Of Public Policy And Community Involvement.
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ISBN 13 : 9781100129662
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Breaking the Links Between Poverty and Violence Against Women written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 0812250680
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mindy Bingham
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ISBN 13 : 9780911655001
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Women Helping Girls with Choices written by Mindy Bingham and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers helpful suggestions for fostering community involvement in career awareness and advocacy issues related to young girls and women. Direct service projects are addressed as well as advocacy projects involving schools and the communities in providing wider opportunities for young women. Recent research data is presented relating to the increasing feminization of poverty, high teenage pregnancy rate, high school dropout rate, and the unrealistic attitude girls and young women continue to exhibit toward work and their futures. The handbook provides a step-by-step process for starting and sustaining projects in the local community. Chapter titles include: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Getting Started"; (3) "Advocacy Through Publicity and Promotion"; (4) "Sample Projects"; (5) "Fundraising"; and (6) "Long-Range Planning." Resources and additional information are offered. (EH)
Author : California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Welfare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Feminization of Poverty Testimony written by California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana María Muñoz Boudet
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 082139892X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book On Norms and Agency written by Ana María Muñoz Boudet and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on focus groups and interviews with nearly 4,000 women, men, girls, and boys from 20 countries, this book explores areas that are less often studied in gender and development: gender norms and agency. It reveals how little gender norms have changed, how similar they are across countries, and how they are being challenged and contested.
Author : Alan Gartner
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483149684
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Consumer Education in the Human Services written by Alan Gartner and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer Education in the Human Services: A Social Policy Book focuses on the trends in consumer education and inclusion of the human services sector, aside from budgeting and purchase of goods, among the considerations in consumer education. The selection first offers information on consumers in the service society and consumer education and advocacy, including the service society, activating consumers, and models of consumer education. The text also looks at consumer education from the feminist perspective. Topics include feminist housing, transportation, and medical care. The manuscript ponders on low-income consumers and disabled consumers as enabled producers, as well as facts regarding low-income service consumers and poor consumers in the 1970s. The text also concentrates on health care, self-care and health planning, and costs of medical care. Private insurance discrimination, flaws of family-related insurance coverage, and women and the health delivery system are discussed. The book is a valuable source of information for readers interested in consumer education.
Author : Mimi Abramovitz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Under Attack, Fighting Back written by Mimi Abramovitz and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America "Abramovitz introduces the reader to cutting edge socioeconomic analysis. . . . It is not possible to come away from Under Attack, Fighting Back with a sense that welfare is a simplistic topic or that the human consequences of adjustments in the existing system are inconsequential." --Labor History "This lively and informative book deserves to be widely read. It provides an excellent history of AFDC and the activities of various women's groups who have campaigned hard over the years for improvements in services to the poor." --Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "Extraordinarily lucid and useful . . . " --In These Times In this short, eye-opening book, Mimi Abramovitz describes the heartless assault on impoverished single mothers in the name of "ending welfare dependency." Outlining the history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Abramovitz shows how the manipulation of gender, race, and class have made welfare vulnerable to attack. This new edition brings a well-received work completely up to date with analysis of recent developments in welfare "reform" and activism.
Author : Jane Gurr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Breaking the Links Between Poverty and Violence Against Women written by Jane Gurr and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of Breaking the Links Between Poverty and Violence Against Women: A Resource Guide is to support the efforts of women's groups, community organizations and service agencies to support low-income women to take control of and deal with the poverty and violence in their lives. [...] The authors have tried to ensure that the Guide reflects the diversity of women's experiences of poverty and violence in Canada, and celebrates the energy and resources that low-income women bring to bear in just surviving, in making changes in their lives and in challenging the inequities that affect them. [...] The authors have drawn on testimony and information presented in a range of other publications to reflect the experiences of Aboriginal women, women with disabilities, immigrant and refugee women, women of colour, lesbians and heterosexual women, women living in rural and isolated communities, and women of different ages. [...] We invite you to use the information presented in this Guide, to make copies of the most useful sections and the fact sheets, to discuss the ideas and suggestions with your co-workers and activists. [...] Despite improvements in women's earnings and violence issues is to enhance our understanding and incomes relative to men's, women form the majority of their impact in women's lives and how the interplay of the poor in Canada.
Author : Barbara Schram
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Human Services written by Barbara Schram and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is known for its engaging style and for the many current examples of human service practitioners at work, which makes it a top seller in its market. It offers a historical context of the field of human services, insights into the overall social welfare field, and concrete descriptions of how primary intervention strategies are put into daily practice in human service agencies." It provides a well-rounded look at the many options offered in the field of human services, and aims to prepare entry level human service workers for future careers. There is a strong multicultural emphasis. Social welfare chapter (Ch. 6) is completely revised to reflect the new Welfare Reform Act (TANF). Incorporates a new section on managed care included in the case management chapter (Ch. 9). Presents new material on the use of computers and the Internet in social agencies in the planning chapter (Ch. 11)." For practitioners of human services and/or social work.
