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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815735003321

Titolo

New perspectives on health, disability, welfare and the labour market / / edited by Colin Lindsay, [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-119-14550-3

1-119-14548-1

1-119-14552-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy

Disciplina

362.4/04840941

Soggetti

Unemployed - Services for - Great Britain

Unemployment - Great Britain

Medical economics - Great Britain

Welfare economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published as Volume 49, Issue 2 of Social Policy & Administration Book compilation."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Assessing the evidence base on health, employability and the labour market : lessons for activation in the UK -- Disability benefits in an age of austerity -- From impairment to incapacity : educational inequalities in disabled people's ability to work -- "Keeping meself to meself" : how social networks can influence narratives of stigma and identity for long-term sickness benefits recipients -- Measuring the impacts of health conditions on work incapacity : evidence from the British Household Panel Survey -- The influence of presenting health condition on eventual return to work for individuals receiving health-related welfare benefits -- A review of health-related support provision within the UK work programme : what's on the menu? -- Supporting the UK's workless : an international comparative perspective.

Sommario/riassunto

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 conti