Social services remain largely unresponsive to the values and needs of Latino families, who often need Spanish-language services. This article discusses access to linguistically appropriate services, not just as a culturally competent practice, but also as a civil rights issue. Spanish speakers have protection from discrimination in federally funded human services under Title VI of the Civil Ri...

This paper deals with the implementation of Social Choice Functions in fair multiagent decision problems. In such problems the determination of the best alternatives often relies on the maximization of a non-utilitarian Social Welfare Function so as to account for equity. However, in such decision processes, agents may have incentive to misreport their preferences to obtain more favorable choic...

doctor shoja-ad-din sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as dr. sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. he is credited for the establishment of the iranian association of rehabilitation, shafa yahyaian hospital as an orthopedic and rehabilitation center, the social welfare organization, iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...

generally. j j Social Welfare, like Social Medicine, will fix its own standards, have its own objectives and develop its own techniques *n achieving the objectives. It cannot follow the Western standards, objectives and techniques. Asia in general and India in particular have an outlook different from the outlook of European cultures. It is different but not inferior by any means. The general i...

A central task in multiagent resource allocation, which provides mechanisms to allocate (bundles of) resources to agents, is to maximize social welfare. We assume resources to be indivisible and nonshareable and agents to express their utilities over bundles of resources, where utilities can be represented in the bundle form, the k-additive form, and as straight-line programs. We study the comp...

We analyse how the welfare state, i.e., social insurance that works through redistributive taxation, should respond to increases in risks and to increases in the cost of operating the welfare state. With respect to risks, we distinguish between risks that can be insured and such that cannot (background risks). Insurable risks can be reduced by costly individual selfinsurance and by costly socia...