Social Policy for Nurses and the Caring Professions

by Louise Ackers, Pamela Abbott

A textbook for students in any of the caring professions. Examines the nature of the social policy they will have to deal with, its relationship to health, who provides social welfare, how the provision of welfare has developed, the competing ideologies of welfare, poverty and inequality, privatization, the voluntary sector, state income maintenance, informal care, the mixed economy, and other aspects. Based on the health-care system in Britain. Distributed in the US by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996