Social Issues in Hong Kong

Social Issues in Hong Kong
Author: Benjamin K. P. Leung
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1990
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This collection of essays critically examines the major social issues in Hong Kong. The topics covered include the distribution of power in society, political development and democratization, community politics, poverty, sexual inequality, and the working environment, collective violence, ageing, pornography, and mental illness. The authors, all members of the teaching staff at the University of Hong Kong, bring to the discussion of these topics their expertise in a variety of fields--psychology, sociology, social work, and psychiatry.

Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia

Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia
Author: H. Kwon
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-04-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230523668

Since the economic crisis of 1997, there have been significant social policy reforms in East Asia. Using the concept of the developmental welfare state, this book seeks to answer whether the welfare reforms in East Asia have extended social rights while maintaining its developmental credentials. Transforming the Developmental Welfare State in East Asia explains the way in which the shift in economic strategy has influenced social policy reform in East Asia. It also analyzes the political dynamics of social policy in which economic imperatives for social reform were transformed into social policy reform.

The Political Economy of Health Care Development and Reforms in Hong Kong

The Political Economy of Health Care Development and Reforms in Hong Kong
Author: Victor C.W. Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2019-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429808372

First published in 1999, this book constitutes a unique account of the development and reform of health care in Hong Kong. Its main focus is on policy developments since 1945. Victor Wong demonstrates the development of a two-tier health system in both a capitalist and Chinese context. His work is one of both health policy and political economy. Wong utilises the latter perspective to show the state’s role in the interests of capital, the public demand for health care and the power of the medical profession. Alongside this, Wong brings in the role of Chinese and family medicine and the role of the family in cost containment and minimising the hospitalisation of elderly, frail and chronically ill patients. The volume is the most comprehensive analysis available for health policy in Hong Kong.

Growing Up the Chinese Way

Growing Up the Chinese Way
Author: Sing Lau
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789622016590

This volume is a collection of current research on Chinese child development: the context of development, cognitive development, social development, and new issues related to the topic.

Social Work Health and Mental Health

Social Work Health and Mental Health
Author: Steven P. Segal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2014-01-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1317788087

Rise to today’s challenges with these innovative and helpful value-based solutions! Containing important, research-based insights into social work practice in these fields, Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique perspectives on shared practice problems from around the world, offering new solutions to the dilemmas practitioners face every day, such as reduced reliance in inpatient/residential service provision, increased reliance on economics in the era of managed care, the move toward multidisciplinary service provision, the growing awareness of diversity of needs, and the cultural requirements of providing effective services. Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique international perspectives on real-world social work practice issues, including: ways to use your social work skills to solicit organ/tissue donation for transplants how a social work directed community organization affected change in health behaviors in East Harlem, New York a look at how to promote psychosocial well-being following a diagnosis of cancer a survey of what mental health services Hong Kong elderly feel they need and what they now receive an examination of the role of demographics and social support in clinician- and patient-related compliance among HIV/AIDS patients a discussion of the appropriateness of hospice services for non-English speaking patients and much more!

Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness

Strength Based Perspective in Working with Clients with Mental Illness
Author: Kam-Shing Yip
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781600218798

This book offers to serve as a guide for professionals in understanding and applying a strength based perspectives for Chinese clients with mental illness and to discuss the Chinese articulation of concepts and practice of these perspective within Chinese culture. Ever since the emergence of a medical model in the explanation of mental illness, the disease model or deficit/problem orientation became the dominant paradigm in perceiving, treating and rehabilitating persons with mental illness. The terms 'mentally ill' and 'mental patient' serve as labels for both professionals, family caregivers and members of community to describe the burden, the needs of care and treatment for persons with mental illness. These labels also justify the establishment and implementation of mental health services. Under the influences of the disease model, persons with mental illness are regarded as subjects for academic research, patients for treatment, clients for intervention, and objects for stigmatisation and labelling.

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management Series

The Journal of Ambulatory Care Management Series
Author: Seth B. Goldsmith
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1994-12
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780834206731

This four volume collection of the best articles from the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management addresses critical issues facing ambulatory care professionals today. As the role of ambulatory care becomes more significant under managed care and health care reform, these books will be a valuable resource to ambulatory care providers and students in health administration programs.