Survey Research

Survey Research
Author: Roger Sapsford
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2007
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781412912327

Covers problem formulation, planning, questionnaire design, sampling, the conduct of interviews, statistical analysis and the presentation of the results.

Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1981
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN:

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Statistical News

Statistical News
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1981
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Developments in British official statistics.

General Practice Revisited

General Practice Revisited
Author: Ann Cartwright
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2024-04-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1003862551

‘This study of general practice and the attitudes of patients and general practitioners to it is the most significant book yet written about the NHS.’ This was how the reviewer in the ‘British Medical Journal’ reviewed Ann Cartwright’s earlier book Patients and their Doctors. In General Practice Revisited, originally published in 1981, Ann Cartwright and Robert Anderson compare the experiences and views described in the first study, carried out in 1964, with those revealed by a second survey in 1977.In the intervening period there were a great many changes in the organization of general practice. For example appointment systems and nurses working in the surgery became the rule rather than the exception, and the number of doctors working in health centres or using deputizing services rose dramatically. This study shows how the basic patient-doctor relationship has been affected by these changes. A fundamental feature of the survey is the demonstration that the attitudes and practices of patients and doctors are linked, and that it is possible to relate the experiences and degree of satisfaction of patients to the doctor’s age, sex, size of practice, equipment, ancillary help, and indeed to the doctor’s views and habits.By bringing the picture of general practice up-to-date Ann Cartwright and Robert Anderson provided the basic data for any discussion of primary health care in this country at the time.

The Strategy of Equality

The Strategy of Equality
Author: Julian Le Grand
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2018-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429944217

Originally published in 1982 The Strategy of Equality examines public expenditure on the social services as a strategy for promoting social equality. Today there is a widespread belief that the strategy has worked and that public spending on the social services primarily benefits those less well off. However, there have been few attempts to examine whether this belief is founded in reality. This book attempts to rectify this. Examining four areas of social policy: health care, education, housing, and transport, the book looks at the distribution of public expenditure and the ‘outcome’ of that expenditure, as well as the implications for various conceptions of equality.

Commercial Distribution in Europe (Routledge Revivals)

Commercial Distribution in Europe (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John Dawson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-07-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317598865

The physical distribution of products is an important element in the marketing operations of all productive enterprises, and in many cases efficient distribution is the most important single factor leading to success. With the emergence of post-industrial society the role of distribution has come to increasingly be viewed as a generator of wealth in the economy, attracting the interest of public policy makers anxious to influence investment, employment and efficiency in the sector. First published in 1982, this book isolates the major trends affecting the main institutions in distribution and contrasts the processes of change amongst the countries and regions of the European Economic Community. Structural change in the industry is related to spatial change in the regions and comparisons made of the varied public policy responses in member countries. An interesting and relevant reissue, this title will be of particular value to economics and business students with an interest in the development of the European consumer and post-industrial Europe.

Family, State and Social Policy

Family, State and Social Policy
Author: Lorraine Fox Harding
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995-12-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349243779

Family, State and Social Policy brings together two important themes: the changing nature of the family; and the relationship between family and state, as it is expressed in social policy. The book explores and clarifies the significance both of family change for policy, and of policy for families, outlining models that can be used in order to understand the state's approach and response to families.

Progress in Rural Geography (Routledge Revivals)

Progress in Rural Geography (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Michael Pacione
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134598459

This wide-ranging volume, first published in 1983, reflects the increasing scope of the field of rural geography in the second half of the twentieth century. Although traditional areas of study such as agriculture and the land-use patterns of the countryside remained important, scholars also began to consider rural transport, employment, housing and policy, as well as to develop new theories and methodologies for application to study. The chapters included here addressed the need for a review of the changes that had taken place within the field of rural geography, and as such provide an essential background to students with an interest in rural demography, planning and agriculture.

The Economics of Human Betterment

The Economics of Human Betterment
Author: Kenneth E. Boulding
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1985-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791497234

The Economics of Human Betterment is a comparative look at economic change and social progress. It is about betterment—a change or process—and about institutions and countries as they evolve. It is about human betterment—and therefore concerned with perceived welfare and the identification of basic human needs. And it is about economics, but about means as means, not means as ends. This book asks in what way productive activities (whether free market or planned, whether in developed or in developing countries) influence and reflect basic human values. The essays contained herein represent some of the best up-to-date accounts available on such topics as the welfare state in Holland or the relationship between growth and betterment in Singapore. Other essays take in the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and the planned economy of the Soviet Union. The contributors are all well-known experts in their own field. And their essays reveal a common conviction that economics is about people first, and about things only in so far as they contribute to human betterment.