Self Help in Health and Social Welfare: England and West Germany

ISBN-13: 9781138607309 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 172 str.

Opis

Originally published in 1989, Self Help in Health and Social Welfare looks at the current World Health Organization policy that encourages self-help in health. The book suggests that this can more readily be achieved by international collaboration and exchange of ideas. England and West Germany are both advanced industrialized societies with complex and highly developed health and social welfare systems and resilient voluntary sectors. Much can therefore be learnt by comparing their experiences. This book reports developments and initiatives from these two countries, covering issues such as the institutional context, evaluating self-help, public policy and support for self-help.

Spis treści

Contributors  Introduction  Part I: National Structures and Policies  1. Some Remarks on West Germany’s Health and Welfare System and the Position of Self Help  2. Government Policy on Self Help Groups in England  Part II: The International Context  3. Politics and Policies on Self Help: Notes on the International Scene  Part III: The Evaluation of Self Help  Introductory  4. The Developments of Self Help Organizations: Dilemmas and Ambiguities  5. ‘I Don’t Believe in Data…’  6. Why We Need Data: Observations on Evaluation Research in Health-Related Self Help  Part IV: Local Support for Self Help  Introductory Note  7. On Support for Self Help Groups at the Local Level  8. The Contact and Information Centre for Self Help Groups in Hamburg: How It Was Set Up  9. Local Support for Self Help Groups: A Future Task for the Health Social and Education Services  10. English Self Help Support in Context  11. From Philosophy to Partnership  12. Local Support for Self Help. More Difficult than it Looks  Concluding Notes  Bibliographic References  Index