scholarly journals Privatization

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Social Welfare Services

Privatization of social welfare services in Canada is promoted by national, provincial, regional and municipal governments through initiatives that emphasize public-private partnerships. Together with encouraging these partnerships as a privatization strategy, government also reduces public funding and replaces it with private sector contracting for social provision. An exploratory study of the Healthy Babies/ Healthy Children (HBHC) program found an increasing acceptance of privatization by service providers in Ontario. These findings illustrate the argument that government creates the context for market-based solutions. But can market-based solutions really solve social problems, and is this the intention of government social policy?

Illegitimacy—the Dimensions of Prevention

1969 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Chaskel
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
Social Welfare Services ◽  
Tertiary Stage

The tertiary stage in the prevention of illegitimacy involves questions of public social policy and the provision of complete social welfare services

scholarly journals Public-private partnerships in the provision of homeopathic services in the city of Delhi, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (37) ◽  
pp. 353-361
Author(s):  
R Venkat Raman ◽  
Raj Kumar Manchanda
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Policy Option ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Medical Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Government

Homeopathy is one among the popular medical systems in India. Over the years, the government has been attempting to mainstream homeopathy in the public health system, nevertheless, most service providers are in the private sector. Therefore, increase of quality and availability to all population classes by means of public-private partnerships is seen as a viable policy option. In Delhi, 90% of homeopathic services providers belong to the private sector, including charity trusts. Most of them provide services to the low-income population in urban slams. In 2003, Delhi government launched a program involving the private sector to provide homeopathic services in underserved city areas. This project funded private agencies to run homeopathic clinics. This paper provides an overview on this program, addressing in particular the lessons taught by six case studies represented by non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It also discusses expectations of private providers and concludes with specific recommendations for wider participation of the private sector.

scholarly journals Aging amongst immigrants in Canada: population drift

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Durst
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Home Country ◽  
National Average ◽  
Visible Minority ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Social Welfare Services ◽  
Senior Population

In Canada, two interesting demographic trends have been underway: an aging population and a growth based upon immigration. These patterns combine to form a new group that seems to have evaded notice. According to the 2001 Census of Canada, immigrants are older than the national average and almost 31% of the immigrants from Europe are over 65 years of age. Of the total senior population, 28.4% are immigrants with 5% of Asian descent. Overall, 7.2% of the senior’s population is a visible minority. These patterns have implications for policy development and service delivery. As immigrants age in Canada, they will have very different expectations for services than non-immigrants and immigrants who aged in their home country. This paper offers recommendations for policy planners and service providers in health and social welfare services.

Religion and Social Welfare in the Lebanon: Treating the Causes or Symptoms of Poverty?

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
RANA JAWAD
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Social Interventions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Need

AbstractThis article achieves two objectives. It introduces new insights to current thinking on social policy in the Middle East based on a case study of religious welfare in Lebanon. This in turn provides an analysis of how faith-based welfare may connect to social policy more broadly. Focusing on how five of the most prominent Lebanese Muslim and Christian welfare organisations engage with poverty reduction, the article draws attention to the moral dimension of social policy-making. This is illustrated by an analysis of how the Lebanese faith-based organisations (FBOs) define the objects of their interventions and, subsequently, how appropriately they respond to the causes of social problems. The analysis also includes a review of the FBOs' evaluation of their services. The overall argument of the article comments on the extent to which social welfare in Lebanon has scope to act beyond short-term, instrumental or politicised goals. It argues that human need, the ‘social case’ and poverty are three core concepts which determine the design of social interventions, but they also serve to confuse the definition of the object of social policy. The argument concludes that needs interpretation by welfare service providers in Lebanon is the site of deep contention in the policy-making process, since the lack of clarity in defining the object of policies can hamper the effectiveness of services. This means that while the social action undertaken by FBOs in Lebanon is more complex than the private or corporate charity initiatives known in the British or North American faith-based contexts, religious welfare programmes in Lebanon are more focused on palliative in-kind services.

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