Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain

Social encounter networks: characterizing Great Britain

A major goal of infectious disease epidemiology is to understand and predict the spread of infections within human populations, with the intention of better informing decisions regarding control and intervention. However, the development of fully mechanistic models of transmission requires a quantitative understanding of social interactions and collective properties of social networks. We perfo...

Social Casework in Great Britain

Psychiatric Social Work in Great Britain (1939-1962)

With exemplary thoroughness Noel Timms has surveyed the history, annals anCl publications of psychiatric social workers and attempts to answer the searching question: "Who are these creatures and what do they do?" "Psychiatric social work began both as a specialised clinical function with1^ psychiatry and as an attempt to bring the 'psychiatric viewpoint' into social workMr. Timms goes on to re...

Twinning rates and social class in Great Britain.

We examined like and unlike sex twinning rates in Great Britain by social class over the period 1974-85. Although twinning rates are believed to have changed over that period, we found no evidence of differential change by social class, suggesting that any factors affecting twinning are widespread in the population.

Some recent developments in social service in Great Britain.

* Lecturer and Research Associate, School of Social Work, University of Toronto; author and formerly social worker in Great Britain. "Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person who, on or after the appointed day, being over school leaving age and under pensionable age, is in Great Britain, and fulfills such conditions as may be prescribed as to residence in Great Britain, shall become ...