In the field of social work it is hard to measure needs, methods, or results. Social workers are overloaded and do not have either the time or resources to evaluate their efforts. Controversy exists as to whether practical help or specially skilled casework, is more relevant to clients' lives. Miss Goldberg's book is the report of a controlled experiment, the first of its kind in this country, ...

This study was undertaken to assess the socio-economic impact of producing export oriented agricultural crops on the livelihoods of the farmers, in eastern Ethiopia. A random sample of 305 farmers was studied. Comparisons were made between producers and non-producers using the Ztest and regression analysis. It was found that producers of export oriented crops are better off than the non-produce...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine the predictive relationships between employee health risk factors (HRFs) and workers' compensation (WC) claim occurrence and costs. METHODS Logistic regression and generalised linear models were used to estimate the predictive association between HRFs and claim occurrence and cost among a cohort of 16 926 employees from 314 large, medium an...

Principals, superintendents, and other administrators can and do move between jobs that carry the same official title. Such movement is reflected in position turnover (for example, as a principal or a superintendent moves from one school to another) but need not generate overall job vacancies. Our analysis generated little empirical support for the idea that there is a nationwide crisis in the ...

This special issue of The Public Historian will examine what is a pressing, pervasive, traumatic, and very public contemporary issue in which history and historians are heavily involved in many countries around the globe. Authors will investigate a range of issues around the state involvement in death, including the role of the state as perpetrator and its responsibilities to the victims and th...

BACKGROUND There is growing interest on the impact of performance-based financing (PBF) on health workers' motivation and performance. However, the literature so far tends to look at PBF payments in isolation, without reference to the overall remuneration of health workers. Taking the case of Sierra Leone, where PBF was introduced in 2011, this study investigates the absolute and relative contr...

• an official unemployment rate of 14.2% vs. 9% for non-disabled – larger than any other protected class of citizens [3]; • the average duration of unemployment was 25 weeks vs. 21 weeks for non-disabled [3]; • higher levels of under-employment including [4]; ◦ 7.8% involuntary part-time workers for AWDs vs. 5.5% for non-disabled; and ◦ 11.5% experienced reduction in wages; i.e., full-time earn...

Accidents are always sudden. They happen despite considerable developments in the safety techniques/warning systems, affecting not only the workers directly involved, but also the people around. This is evident from the reported article on the 15th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, entitled: “15 years on, Chernobyl survivors relive the nightmare” by Philippe Coumarianos (Times of I...