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

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.4/04840941
• Soggetto topico: Unemployed - Services for - Great Britain; Unemployment - Great Britain; Medical economics - Great Britain; Welfare economics
• Persona (resp. second.): LindsayColin (Researcher)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: New perspectives on health, disability, welfare and the labour market
• ISBN: 1-119-14550-3; 1-119-14548-1; 1-119-14552-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815735003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Broadening perspectives in social policy.