Social policy / Hartley Dean.
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TextSeries: Short introductionsPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2006Description: xiv, 154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0745634354Subject(s): Social policyLOC classification: HN18 | .D42 2006Summary: Taking an innovative approach to social policy as the study of human wellbeing, Hartley Dean examines the ways in which governments and peoples throughout the world attend to, promote, neglect or even undermine the things that make life worth living. These include essential services, such as healthcare and education; the means of livelihood, such as jobs and money; and vital but sometimes intangible things, such as physical and emotional security. Some of these are organized by governments and official bodies. Others are provided by businesses, social groups, community organizations, neighbours and families. Trying to understand all these elements, which together constitute human wellbeing, is the stuff of social policy. -- from back cover
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-143) and index (pages 144-154).
Taking an innovative approach to social policy as the study of human wellbeing, Hartley Dean examines the ways in which governments and peoples throughout the world attend to, promote, neglect or even undermine the things that make life worth living. These include essential services, such as healthcare and education; the means of livelihood, such as jobs and money; and vital but sometimes intangible things, such as physical and emotional security. Some of these are organized by governments and official bodies. Others are provided by businesses, social groups, community organizations, neighbours and families. Trying to understand all these elements, which together constitute human wellbeing, is the stuff of social policy. -- from back cover