Poverty, urbanity and social policy [[electronic resource] ] : Central and Eastern Europe compared / / Jolanta Aldukaite, editor

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - Europe, Central; Poverty - Europe, Eastern; Urban policy - Europe, Central; Urban policy - Europe, Eastern
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Central Social policy; Europe, Eastern Social policy
• Altri autori: AldukaiteJolanta
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE COMPARED""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""PART I: CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY""; ""POVERTY, URBANITY AND SOCIAL POLICY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF WELFARE REFORMS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES ""; ""A NEW TYPE OF WELFARE REGIME IN CEE? ""; ""THIS BOOK""; ""CHILDREN, POVERTY AND SOCIAL POLICY ""; ""POVERTY, GENDER AND SOCIAL POLICY"" ; ""URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY""""SOCIAL POLICY: EAST-WEST COMPARISONS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""EXTREME POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE HERITAGE OF A DECADE OF TRANSITION""; ""DATA AND BASIC ASSUMPTIONS FOR POVERTY MEASUREMENT""; ""LEVELS AND TRENDS IN CHILD POVERTY ""; ""RELATIVE POVERTY AMONG CHILDREN""; ""POVERTY AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION""; ""URBAN, RURAL AND REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILD POVERTY""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES"" ; ""RULES FROM ABOVE, VIEWS FROM BELOW: ACCESSING AND USING CHILD HEALTH SERVICES IN POST-COMMUNIST RURAL ROMANIA""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND RURAL POVERTY""; ""THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN""; ""Modelling Child Health Care Decisions ""; ""Data: Study Sites, Respondents and Instruments""; ""FINDINGS: FORMAL STRUCTURES AND INFORMAL NORMS ""; ""Formal Norms: Organizational Structure of the Health Care System and Financing Health Care in Rural Areas ""; ""Human Resources: Medical Staff, Nurses and Local Healers"" ; ""Informal Norms and Procedures: â€?Under-the-Tableâ€? Payments, Enduring Legacies of the Past""""Over-Utilization of Tertiary Care versus Primary Health Care: Real Health Care Choices for the Rural Poor? ""; ""The Politics behind the Health Care System Adversely Affect Delivery ""; ""CONCLUSION: RURAL POVERTY AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY: THE CONUNDRUM FOR EUROPEAN INTEGRATION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART II: GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY""; ""GENDER, SOCIAL POLICY AND POVERTY IN CEE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""GENDER REGIMES""; ""EMPLOYMENT""; ""RECONCILING EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY"" ; ""INCOME REDISTRIBUTION""""MARKETISATION VS. THE SWEDISH MODEL""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""ON PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR WORKING PARENTS IN RUSSIA: ALLEVIATING POVERTY AND CONSTRUCTING GENDER ROLES""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THEORETICAL APPROACH, DATA AND METHOD""; ""PARENTAL LEAVE MODEL""; ""FINANCIAL SUPPORT MODEL""; ""ANALYSIS OF FAMILY POLICY EFFECTS FOR POVERTY RELIEF""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PART III: URBAN POLICY, RENEWAL AND POVERTY""; ""URBAN RENEWAL AND SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATIONS IN POST-SOVIET RIGA: FROM SOVIET CITY TO â€?WESTERNâ€? METROPOLIS?"" ; ""ABSTRACT""
• Titolo autorizzato: Poverty, urbanity and social policy
• ISBN: 1-60876-292-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824758303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II