Human Services

Human Services Integration

The fashionable phrase, "human services integration," has many possible operational meanings. It is especially important to distinguish between integration as a set of administrative techniques or structural arrangements, on the one hand, and integration as a characteristic of services or their manner of delivery, on the other. This leaves open the possibility of empirically testing how certain...

Role of rainwater harvesting for improving the human well-being and ecosystem services

 Ecosystem services are fundamental for human well-being and are the basis of rural livelihoods, particularly for poor people. Rainwater harvesting can serve as an opportunity to enhance ecosystem productivity, thereby improving livelihoods, human well-being, and economies. Rainwater harvesting has been shown to create synergies between landscape management and human well-being. These synergi...

The "Human Sensor: " Bridging Between Human Data and Services

Data from ‘human sensors’ is increasingly easy to collect. Yet how may systems be designed that put it to use? This chapter discusses this question in three steps. First, we describe how the increasing ubiquity of digital systems is facilitating the creation of streams of human data. We characterise these data sources according to their purpose, obtrusiveness, structure, and hierarchy. Then, we...

Human Services Information Technology: A Shared System

From surveyed responses and evolving technologies, technical issues related to developing a secure county/regional based human services information systems solution are identified. Components of such a system are identified and discussed as to their viability to successfully design and implement shared data between government agencies and non-profit groups throughout Lake County and the State o...

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