scholarly journals Strong and Vibrant Social Sector is sine qua non for Social Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sanjai Bhatt

As the largest country, India faces several social issues, and all governments— central or states, have supported several welfare and developmental programmes and schemes. Unfortunately, many of these programmes were politicised and resulted in politicising interest and farewell to welfare. As a result, the social sector expenditure has grown just 7.7% of the GDP between 2015 and 2019, and of the total 7.7% GDP expenditure, 3.1% went to education, 1.6% to healthcare and the rest to other social services segments. India has a large social sector compared to many other countries having around 3.9 million NGOs and a substantial social service workforce. While India has announced its vision 2030 to become and is poised to become a five trillion-dollar economy in the next five years, it needs to emphasise that a healthy, strong and vibrant social sector is essential necessity to ensure its citizens' quality of life and happiness.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.E. Gasumova

This article presents the author’s definitions of “digitization of social service provision” and “digitization of social services” concepts and identifies the difference between them. It presents the results of an interview with 18 experts — the heads of institutions and organizations of social service provision implementing the rehabilitation of disabled people in Perm region. The research was conducted in 2019 and sought to identify problems and prospects for the digitization of the social services sphere. Interviewees rated their satisfaction regarding the convenience and time cost of automated systems that are currently being used in their organizations; characterized their needs in introducing various innovative interactive services, mobile applications, and other digital software; and expressed their attitude to various innovations. Social innovations were developed by the researchers and offered to experts by interviewers (for example, services for assessing the quality of work of specialists by service users, quick selection of the right social service, filing a complaint, referring a citizen to another organization, counseling in video mode, electronic appointment service, etc.). The research has shown how innovations can improve the performance of social service providers’ work and the quality of their interactions with citizens, which will ultimately increase the satisfaction of social service users and will positively affect the level of social well-being in society as a whole. A number of problems have been identified that currently impede the development of digitization: they are related to staff resources, the level of computerization, the lack of motivation among managers and personnel of social service organizations to implement innovative IT, and a certain distrust that such technologies can facilitate the activities of the organization and increase its effectiveness. Keywords: digitization, social service provision, social services, social institutions, social work


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
T.V. Soloveva ◽  
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E.G. Pankova ◽  
D.A. Bistyaikina ◽  
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The article presents the results of a study of the possibilities of the social protection system to improve the quality of life of substitute families in the Republic of Mordovia. The authors conclude that a substitute family is not a legally defined term for any type of family that accepts a child (children) left without parental care. Social protection of a substitute family is a system of support provided by providing a set of social services to the family in order to preserve and strengthen the social, psychological and physical health of members of the foster family and prevent secondary abandonment of the child. Professional formation and support of substitute families is one of the most important stages in the work of specialists working with a child placed in a family and members of this family. The results of the research presented in the article suggest that in General, substitute parents in the Republic of Mordovia are satisfied with the socio-psychological and socio-legal knowledge obtained during the preparation and decision-making on the creation of a substitute family. Adaptation and upbringing of a foster child, the features of children who have a traumatic experience of breaking up with their biological parents and the features of their development in adolescence – are the topics that were most significant for the substitute parents. The authors observed that adoptive families are heterogeneous both in terms of social well-being in General, and by the presence and intensity of elements, and therefore family policies should focus not only on the institution of foster families in General, but to be differentiated in relation to different groups. The results obtained provide a scientific basis for such a differentiated policy, which corresponds to the principle of targeting, widely declared in social policy and social work.


Author(s):  
Segundo A. García Muentes ◽  
María Gabriela García Ávila ◽  
Benigno Luis Labrada Vázquez ◽  
Ana Esthela Sánchez del Campo Laffita

The social impact of planting and harvesting the jatropha curca for the production of biodiesel in the province of Manabí is shown, where there are several municipalities involved in this process, mainly the populations that live in rural areas where the conditions are created for their improvement of quality and good living from the income they receive for performing these tasks. A social relationship model was designed that links the social development of rural areas in the province of Manabí with the sowing, harvesting and industrialization of jatropha curca in social development, demonstrating the benefit of using indigenous natural resources for the in the improvement of the quality of life of the populations directed to the economic, energetic, social and environmental sustainable development.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 19-19
Author(s):  
Daniel Kaplan ◽  
Barbara Silverstone ◽  
Keith Chan ◽  
Amanda Spishak-Thomas

Abstract Social services for older adults are instrumental in addressing vulnerabilities associated with aging. Yet, practitioners report needing expanded geriatric knowledge and enhanced supervision. Agency-based supervision is essential to skilled practice and staff retention, directly impacting the quality of services delivered by the teams they support. The Supervisory Leaders in Aging (SLA) program of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was designed to strengthen supervision of the social service workforce. The SLA program, adopted in four states (IL, FL, MD, and NY), trained 134 MSW supervisors who support 1,200 social service staff, aimed at enhancing the well-being of 264,000 clients annually. This paper reports newly available final outcomes data from the 3-year implementation study of SLA. Trainees self-rated use of relevant supervisory best-practices was measured with novel 30-item instrument which captured frequency in use of supervisory best practices. The measure was administered prior to the first session and at three and twelve months after the final session. Comparisons of ratings across time periods demonstrate a range of positive and significant increases at the end of program workshops (0.12–0.56; mean of 0.30 points) and after one year (0.18–0.53; mean of 0.34 points). Supervisory best practices were maintained by those who already engaged in these behaviors, and participants who previously underutilized best practices adopted and maintained these behaviors as a result of the workshops. Implications of this tested model for enhancing workforce capacity will be discussed, including variation of impacts by supervisor characteristics and retention of learning gains over time.


Author(s):  
М. В. Зарічкова

<p><strong>IMPROVEMENT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF PROVIDING THE SOCIAL SERVICES FOR SPECIALISTS PHARMACY</strong></p><p><strong>M. V. Zarichkova</strong></p><p>InstituteofPharmacyProfessionals Qualification Improvement (IPHPQI), NationalUniversityofPharmacy, Kharkiv</p><p><strong>Summary:</strong> the main components of the system of social services (SS) for specialists’ pharmacy, namely the quality, the monitoring, the control and the evaluation of SS were considered. SS as an economic category was analyzed and outlined its basic properties. The differences of SS and material assistance were given. It was theoretically proved necessity of improvement some of the terms, including «social services», «monitoring of social services», «quality of social services for specialists pharmacy» and others. The algorithm for monitoring, control and evaluation of SS was developed. It was proposed to consider these components as a chain of «Monitoring of social services (MSS) - Control of Social Services (CSS) - Evaluation of Social Services (ESS)». It was investigated the legislative support of provision of SS and on its basis proposed to develop the unified standard of SS for specialists pharmacy.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> social protection of specialists pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, social services, monitoring of social services, control of social services, evaluation of social services.</p><p><strong>Introduction.</strong> The important aspect in providing SS specialists pharmacy is the implementation of the institutional analysis of the production sector SS of an administrative-territorial unit. Particular attention is given to study ought the state's role in the formation and development of the sector SS; study the scope and structure of the sector SS relevant administrative units, mechanisms and forms of interaction between its elements, potential and resources of organizations to provide the necessary SS. This requires comprehensive research and detailed description the sector SS. The analysis of the scope of the provision of SS may be useful to identify of social groups’ pharmacy professionals who today feel the need in social protection and the relevant SS [1, 2].</p><p><strong>Research methods.</strong> The basis of the research served as the requirements legislative and normative acts the system for providing SS in Ukraine; domestic scientific achievements of the organization and economics of pharmacy. During research the have been used the modern scientific methods: comparison (generalization legislative base on providing SS), logical (research of dynamics of changes in the provision of SS), historical analysis and more. We have been analyzed the existing scientific publications of foreign and domestic authors, who covered the issues related to social protection. Thus, the problems of social security of the population studied, particularly domestic scientists - Kotvitska A.A., Posylkina A.V., Nemchenko A.S. etc. The analysis of the literature has shown that the attention to the use of SS inUkraine started quite recently, and experience in providing SS for specialists’ pharmacy is an innovative.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion.</strong> The development of the private sector social service is extremely slow inUkraine. This is associated with the imperfection of the normative base which does not allow developing non government social services, in particular given the sector specific. The development of the private sector in the social protection specialist pharmacy (SPSPh) ofUkraine is a social problem which requires immediate resolution. The demand for alternative social care of professionals pharmacy has been around a long time, but appropriate conditions for its implementation has not created [1].</p><p>Developed industries countries use different models of social services, which are promising for application inUkraine. The foreign experience of the private sector to provide SS demonstrates the significant achievements in this regard.</p><p>Is necessary to note that in all these countries the right to providing SS guaranteed by the State and derive social competition. Typically in private institutions SS is cheaper than in public. However, the recipients seeking to use the SS of state institutions because the quality of SS is higher.</p><p><strong>Conclusions.</strong> 1. Has been analyzed the existing experience of SS in Ukraine and abroad and the possibility of their use in the trade unions and other organizations that deal with social protection specialist pharmacy has been established. It was found that to date is missing effective mechanism to provide of SS specialists pharmacy in the relevant administrative units territorially because we consider it necessary to create a single register of SS for pharmacy professionals.</p><p>2. The basic criterion features of SS were analyzed and brief description of them was given, with highlighted as features of each criterion.</p><p>3. It was analyzed the legislative and normative base which regulates the system of SS and discovered necessity of improvement of some terminological definition of concepts such as "social service", "monitoring of social services", "quality of social services for specialists pharmacy " and so on.</p><p>4. It was studied the system of SS inUkraineand found that it is reasonable to improve the organization of monitoring, control and evaluation of SS. To summarize the actions in this direction was suggested to consider these components as a chain "MSS - CSS - ESS."</p><p>5. The resulted of studies have demonstrated that there exists necessity of development of system of SS standards that provide adequate standard of living specialists pharmacy and correspond to the European standards. Considering this, the basis of social protection specialist pharmacy is necessary to not establish subsistence minimum, as specified in the applicable social laws and social standards on the basis of pharmacy professionals.</p>


Publika ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 295-306
Author(s):  
Filandita Ananda Kusuma Pratama ◽  
Fitrotun Niswah

Pemerintah Kota Surabaya menggandeng Dinsos Kota Surabaya untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup warga. Salah satu upaya dilakukan dengan  membuat suatu program inovasi yang berfokus pada hunian yang layak untuk masyarakat miskin. Program tersebut yaitu Tahu Panas, program ini dimaksudkan untuk memperbaiki rumah yang tidak layak huni. Karena masih adanya warga Surabaya yang rumahnya belum layak huni, dengan adanya program ini diharapkan masyarakat miskin yang memiliki rumah tidak layak huni mendapatkan rumah yang layak dan meningkatkan kualitas hidupnya lebih baik lagi. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui strategi peningkatan kualitas hidup melalui program tahu panas oleh Dinsos Kota Surabaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data dengan cara observasi,wawancara,dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data dengan pengumpulan data, Reduksi data,Penyajian data, hingga penarikan kesimpulan atau verifikasi. Fokus penelitian terdiri dari tiga indikator yaitu Goal Directed Actions yaitu organisasi dan bagaimana mengimplementasikannya, mempertimbangkan semua kekuatan internal (sumber daya dan kapabilitas), serta memperhatikan peluang dan tantangan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa dalam pelaksanaanya program ini : Dinsos bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan dan kualitas hidup warga surabaya dalam memliki rumah sederhana dan sehat melalui program Tahu Panas. Dalam pelaksanaanya juga dibantu oleh UPKM atau Pokmas yang sudah dipilih oleh lurah dimana UPKM ini bertugas untuk memanage segala urusan pembangunan. Dari pihak Dinsos ada pendampingan sebanyak 31 orang yang berada dibidang pemberdayaan sosial dan 1 pendamping memegang 4-5 kelurahan dengan total 154 kelurahan yang ada di Surabaya dalam pelaksanaan program Tahu Panas. Dalam pelaksanaannya sering mengalami kendala terutama pada UPKMnya. Kata Kunci: Strategi,Program Tahu Panas,Kualitas hidup   The Surabaya City Government is collaborating with the Surabaya City Social Service to improve the quality of life of its citizens. One of the efforts is to create an innovation program that focuses on decent housing for the poor. The program, namely Tahu Panas, is intended to repair houses that are unfit for habitation. Because there are still residents of Surabaya whose houses are not yet livable, with this program it is hoped that the poor who have houses that are not suitable for habitation will get decent houses and improve their quality of life to be even better. The purpose of this study was to determine the strategy for improving the quality of life through the Tahu Panas program by the Surabaya City Social Service. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques by means of observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis techniques with data collection, data reduction, data presentation, to drawing conclusions or verification. The research focus consists of three indicators, namely Goal Directed Actions, namely the organization and how to implement it, considering all internal strengths (resources and capabilities), and paying attention to opportunities and challenges. The results showed that in implementing this program: Dinsos aims to improve the welfare and quality of life of Surabaya residents in having a simple and healthy house through the Tahu Panas program. In its implementation, it is also assisted by the UPKM or Pokmas who have been selected by the village head where the UPKM is in charge of managing all development matters. From the Social Agency, 31 people are assisted in the field of social empowerment and 1 assistant holds 4-5 urban villages with a total of 154 villages in Surabaya in implementing the Hot Tofu program. In its implementation, there are often obstacles, especially in the UPKM. Keywords: Strategic ,Tahu Panas Program, quality of life


BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. e017292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gijs Hesselink ◽  
Julie Johnson ◽  
Paul Batalden ◽  
Michelle Carlson ◽  
Wytske Geense ◽  
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IntroductionThe USA lags behind other high-income countries in many health indicators. Outcome differences are associated with differences in the relative spending between healthcare and social services at the national level. The impact of the ratio and delivery of social and healthcare services on the individual patient’s health is however unknown. ‘Reframing Healthcare Services through the Lens of Co-Production’ (RheLaunCh) will be a cross-Atlantic comparative study of the mechanisms by which healthcare and social service delivery may impact patient health with chronic conditions. Insight into these mechanisms is needed to better and cost-effectively organise healthcare and social services.MethodsWe designed a mixed methods study to compare the socioeconomic background, needs of and service delivery to patients with congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the USA and the Netherlands. We will conduct: (1) a literature scan to compare national and regional healthcare and social service systems; (2) a retrospective database study to compare patient’s socioeconomic and clinical characteristics and the service use and spending at the national, regional and hospital level; (3) a survey to compare patient perceived quality of life, receipt and experience of service delivery and ability of these services to meet patient needs; and (4) multiple case studies to understand what patients need to better govern their quality of life and how needs are met by services.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval was granted by the ethics committee of the Radboud University Medical Center (2016–2423) in the Netherlands and by the Human Subjects Research Committee of the Hennepin Health Care System, Inc. (HSR #16–4230) in the USA. Multiple approaches will be used for dissemination of results, including (inter)national research presentations and peer-reviewed publications. A website will be established to support the development of a community of practice.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Linderman

In Rapid City, South Dakota, community, business, nonprofit, and faith communities leaders, along with a number of citizens across all demographics, are collaborating in a unique plan to create quality of life for all its citizens. Named Rapid City Collective Impact (RCCI), this initiative began with the vision of several local philanthropists and has expanded quickly throughout the community. Cultural anthropologist Albert Linderman along with expertise from community based systems dynamics experts Don Greer, Megan Odenthal, and Christine Capra have formed a facilitative “backbone” organization for RCCI. Based on the model for “Collective Impact” made popular by an article by a Stanford Innovation Review article by authors John Kania and Mark Kramer, organizations and programs serving Rapid City citizens are committed to significantly increasing the amount of collaboration occurring within the social service sector, while business and other community leaders work to leverage newly understood leverage points within the intersecting systems of the city which often limits ability to address entrenched social issues.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Giovanda Wahyu Andika ◽  
Farida Wahyu Ningtyias ◽  
Sulistiyani Sulistiyani

Background: The world's population is currently in an era of aging with the number of elderly people exceeding 7% of the population. This condition will certainly bring positive and negative impacts. It’s needed to pay attention to the elderly, especially on their quality of life. Objective: To determine the differences in the quality of life of the elderly who live with their families in the working area of the Puskesmas Sukorejo and at Jember Tresna Werdha Social Service Unit. Methods: The type of this research was observational analytic using a cross-sectional research design. The study was conducted from January to March 2020. The population in this study amounted to 3472 elderly, consisting of elderly who live in the Tresna Werdha Jember Social Service Unit and live at home with their families in the working area of Sukorejo Community Health Center, Jember. The sample in this study amounted to 100 respondents, consisting of 50 respondents at each research location. The variable studied was the quality of life of the elderly from each place of residence. The data collection instruments included the MMSE questionnaire to assess cognitive impairment in the elderly and the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire to measure the quality of life in the elderly. The sampling technique used was proportional random sampling. Results: The results showed that the majority of the elderly were aged 60-74 years, most of the elderly were female and never attended school. The majority of the elderly who live at home still have a partner, while those who live in the Social Service have no partner. Chi-square test results showed that there was no difference in the quality of life of the elderly in the physical, psychological, and environmental domains, but there were differences in the quality of life in the social domain. Conclusion: There were no differences in the quality of life in the physical, psychological, and environmental domains, but there were differences in the social domain, among respondents. The elderly who lived at home with their family had a better quality of life in the social domain. Suggestion for the elderly who live at home in the working area of the Sukorejo Community Health Center is to increase positive activities that can entertain themselves and participate in social activities, for the elderly who live at the Tresna Werdha Jember Social Services Unit, it is hoped that they can increase the intensity of good social relations between fellow elderly in homestead and do not close themselves off to the people around them, while for supervisors and caregivers in Tresna Werdha Jember Social Service Unit, it is expected to further improve assistance to the elderly to determine the quality of life of the elderly in each homestead.


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