The paper examines how racism is experienced by Black and minority ethnic staff in social services. Departing from previous approaches using pre-determined definitions, the research is based on self-defined incidents of racism. It provides an insight into personal and structural features influencing perceptions and coping strategies, illuminates different forms of racism and examines the relati...

BACKGROUND Social media has created a revolution in health services. Information available on the Internet and via social media is now being used as reference guides for sensitive health issues by nonprofessionals, physicians, and medical students. When used by physicians and medical students, social media has the potential to raise issues such as the blurring of the line between professional a...

This report addresses the challenges arising from a change in Mexico’s official poverty methodology from an income-only basis to a multidimensional basis that includes education, access to health services, access to social security, shelter characteristics, access to basic services, access to food, and level of social cohesion. The concept of poverty underlying this report is drawn from Amartya...

The Semantic Web is defined as an extension of the existing Web, in which information is given a well-defined meaning (Berners-Lee, Hendler, & Lassila 2001). The ultimate goal of the envisioned Semantic Web is to transform the Web into a medium through which data and applications can be automatically understood and processed. The development of technologies for supporting the Semantic Web has b...

Little is known about the factors associated with use of employment services among homeless youth. Social network characteristics have been known to be influential in motivating people's decision to seek services. Traditional theoretical frameworks applied to studies of service use emphasize individual factors over social contexts and interactions. Using key social network, social capital, and ...

the purpose of the managerialism is economy, efficiency, effectiveness in provision public services. also it emphasizes to follow the market strategies instead of bureaucracy. due to increasing productivity of public services management by using flexible styles and public opinion, this approach has provided to response the problems of traditional theory of administration. negative aspects of ma...

Zugang von Sozialhilfeempfänger:innen zu Sozialdienstleistungen in einem digitalisierten Sozialhilfesystem Während der COVID-19-Pandemie hat sich die Digitalisierung sozialer Dienstleistungen stark ausgeweitet, was Fragen des Zugangs ihnen dringlicher werden lassen. Anhand statistischen Daten standardisierten Bedarfen an sozialen im finnischen Sozialhilfesystem, den sog. “Red-Flag-Meldungen” Ja...