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New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market
Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
Lindsay, Colin/Greve, Bent/Cabras, Ignazio et al
ISBN/EAN: 9781119145516
Umbreit-Nr.: 8577117
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 192 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 23.10.2015
Auflage: 1/2015
- Zusatztext
- Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy. * Explores how reducing the level of UK benefit claiming among those with health limitations has been a priority for successive governments * Argues that current policy fails to reflect the evidence that people on long-term disability benefits face a complex combination of barriers to work and social inclusion * Demonstrates that there is a need for continuing inter-disciplinary research on the nature of the 'disability benefits problem' and the efficacy of current policy solutions and public services
- Kurztext
- More than two million people of working age in the UK are out of work and claiming 'incapacity' or disability benefits. Reducing the level of benefit claiming among those with health limitations has been a priority for successive governments, but this book argues that current policy fails to reflect the evidence that people on long-term disability benefits face a complex combination of barriers to work and social inclusion. There is a need for continuing inter-disciplinary research on the nature of the 'disability benefits problem' and the efficacy of current policy solutions and public services. This book brings together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology. It offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.
- Autorenportrait
- Colin Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Business School, UK. Bent Greve is a Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark. Ignazio Cabras is a Reader in Economics, Business and Management at Newcastle Business School, UK. Nick Ellison is Professor and Head of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UK. Stephen Kellett is a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.