Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, srpanj 1993.

The Scandinavian Welfare States

Workfare tendencies in Scandinavian welfare policies

Unemployment, or worklessness, is firmly on the agenda of various Western countries. Although other challenges to citizens' well-being are being identified, as increasing labour market insecurities and rising poverty rates, the problem of non-work is given the main public attention. Even countries with no experience of high unemployment rates, such as Norway, have recently introduced welfare re...

MIGRANTS IN THE SCANDINAVIAN WELFARE STATE The emergence of a social policy problem

2 Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway Grete Brochmann*1, Anniken Hagelund*2 Abstract During the 1990s and more so after the turn of the century, the authorities and the public in Scandinavia have become increasingly concerned about the pressure on welfare inflicted by the immigration of people with low skill levels from countries in the South. A large proportion of these newcomers have ...

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Hand prostheses that are currently available on the market are used by amputees to only a limited extent, partly because of lack of sensory feedback from the artificial hand. We report a pilot study that showed how amputees can experience a robot-like advanced hand prosthesis as part of their own body. We induced a perceptual illusion by which touch applied to the stump of the arm was experienc...

Scandinavian Journal of Food and Nutrition in transition

Research) in 1957 with the aim of informing Swedish and Nordic readers about progress in nutritional sciences. It was directed to professionals working with nutrition such as dieticians, nutrition-ists, medical doctors and nurses, teachers of home economics, and not the least the Swedish food industry that was keen on applying new results for nutritional improvements of their products. In 1961,...