University-agency partnerships have been key to workforce development for public child welfare, private child welfare agencies, and tribal programs. With local, state, federal, and tribal funds, such partnerships have created more alignment between what child welfare systems need and social work education and training. Fostering public agency, private agency, and tribal child welfare workforce ...

Health and education are both components of human capital and contributors to human welfare. One index of human welfare, which incorporates income, education and health, shows that Africa’s level of ‘human development’ is the lowest of any region in the world. In this paper we will frequently compare Africa with South Asia. While Africa’s level of human development is lower than that of South A...

This paper explores social exclusion among older Europeans from ten different countries with three types of welfare regime: Nordic, Mediterranean and postsocialist. Data from the first round of the new European Social Survey are used to explore indicators of social exclusion. A measure of social exclusion and insecurity is constructed from indicators of : the regularity of meeting with friends ...

This book will focus on the role of aging and rising life expectancy in the arena of higher education in present times in particular, and on the promotion of human development/welfare in general. The researcher brings out the importance of pension as a tool of welfare promotion for all categories of workers, thus not excluding the uncovered segments in the informal sector and private companies ...

Health inequalities pose an important public health challenge in European countries, for which increased social mobility has been suggested as a cause. We sought to describe how the relationship between health inequalities and social mobility varies among welfare regime types in the European region. Data from six rounds of the European Social Survey was analyzed using multilevel statistical tec...

A problem common to biology and economics is the transfer of resources from parents to children. We consider the issue under the assumption that the number of offspring is unknown and can be represented as a random variable. There are 3 basic assumptions. The first assumption is that a given body of resources can be divided into consumption (yielding satisfaction) and transfer to children. The ...

Two new Korean laws regulating animal welfare and the humane use of animals in science came into effect in 2008 and 2009. Both these laws impose ethical committee review prior to the performance of animal experiments in research, testing and education. This study briefly summarises the new Korean laws, and investigates the current status regarding the numbers of animals used, the alternatives t...

This book will focus on the role of aging and rising life expectancy in the arena of higher education in present times in particular, and on the promotion of human development/welfare in general. The researcher brings out the importance of pension as a tool of welfare promotion for all categories of workers, thus not excluding the uncovered segments in the informal sector and private companies ...

This book will focus on the role of aging and rising life expectancy in the arena of higher education in present times in particular, and on the promotion of human development/welfare in general. The researcher brings out the importance of pension as a tool of welfare promotion for all categories of workers, thus not excluding the uncovered segments in the informal sector and private companies ...