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The Welfare Workforce - Isabel M. Perera

The Welfare Workforce

Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies
Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-49989-7 (ISBN)
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What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health care systems. The book provides insights for scholars, health and medical practitioners, activists, and trade union strategists.
The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democracies pursued deinstitutionalization, some failed to provide adequate services, while others overcame challenges of stigma and limited resources and successfully expanded care. Isabel M. Perera examines the role of the “welfare workforce” in providing social services to those who cannot demand them. Drawing on extensive research in four countries – the United States, France, Norway, and Sweden – Perera sheds light on post-industrial politics and the critical part played by those who work for the welfare state. A must-read for anyone interested in mental health care, social services, and the politics of welfare, The Welfare Workforce challenges conventional wisdom and offers new insights into the complex factors that contribute to the success or failure of mental health care systems. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Isabel M. Perera is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Perera has held visiting appointments at the European University Institute, University of Gothenburg, University of Oxford, and Sciences Po Paris. This book is based on her award-winning dissertation in political science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her academic training also includes a postdoctoral fellowship in health policy and medical ethics.

1. The welfare workforce: managers and workers make strange bedfellows; 2. Nowhere to go? The supply of mental health services across countries; 3. Before deinstitutionalization: the United States and France compared; 4. Deinstitutionalization in the United States; 5. Deinstitutionalization in France; 6. Deinstitutionalization elsewhere: a Scandinavian check; 7. Beyond deinstitutionalization: welfare workers and welfare capitalism; Postscript: the evolving definition of the 'welfare workforce'; Appendix. Comparative deinstitutionalization data set: codebook and source information.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-009-49989-0 / 1009499890
ISBN-13 978-1-009-49989-7 / 9781009499897
Zustand Neuware
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