Entrenched poor health and health inequity are important public health problems. Conventionally, solutions to such problems originate from the health care sector, a conception reinforced by the dominant biomedical imagination of health. By contrast, attention to the social determinants of health has recently been given new force in the fight against health inequity. The health care sector is a ...

Introduction: Societies today are very complex. Effective and successful implementation of care policies is needed. The concept of stakeholder approach is about creating tools and instruments to organise the communication between all parties involved. Aim: EASPD organised in 2006 the conference ‘ageing and disability—disabled people are ageing, ageing people are getting disabled’ in Austria. Fo...

OBJECTIVES to determine the environmental quality of community-based residential and nursing care for people with dementia. DESIGN survey of a stratified random sample of care homes. SETTINGS forty-six registered residential and nursing homes in a single health district. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES scales for the assessment of environments for people with dementia, including care practices, soc...

This article focuses on the governance and ethical conduct of research within the domain of social work and social care. Globally, research in this domain appears less well regulated than those in the domains of health care. Within the United Kingdom, the Westminster government is implementing a Research Governance Framework for Social Care in England (RGF Social Care). This article locates thi...

This article highlights mechanisms that may further sustainable technological development for the 21st century. The distributional effects associated with the adoption and diffusion of health care technologies are addressed wherein the capacity to capitalize on the health gains from the adoption of technology varies in society. These effects are caused by the actions of individuals as they segm...

With population ageing an increased number of older people live within the community. Nonprofit sector organizations deliver healthcare and social care services to older people on behalf of state-sector organizations. As the demand for these services increase, the role of IT in service delivery becomes important. Research which investigates the use of ICT in these aged care organizations is sca...

The social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) is a technique for assessing social impact and potential impact that aims to evaluate the social and socio-economic aspects of products and their potential for both positive and negative impacts along their life cycle. The lack of a quantitative inventory data for social issues is a weakness of the S-LCA methodology to calculate social impacts. This stud...