Solidarity in health and social care in Europe /

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Imprint:	Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
Description:	xxi, 502 p.
Language:	English
Series:	Philosophy and medicine ; v. 69
Subject:	Human services -- European Union countries -- Public opinion. Medical care -- European Union countries -- Public opinion. Solidarity. Welfare state. Public opinion -- European Union countries. Human services -- Public opinion. Medical care -- Public opinion. Public opinion. Solidarity. Welfare state. Europe -- European Union countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4564671

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Other authors / contributors:	Meulen, R. H. J. ter (Ruud H. J.), 1952- Arts, Wilhelmus Antonius, 1946- Muffels, R. J. A.
ISBN:	1402001649 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Solidarity, Health and Social Care in Europe Introduction to the Volume
1. Setting the Scene: the Issue of Solidarity in Modern Society
2. Concerns for Care Put Solidarity under Strain
3. Theoretical Perspectives on Solidarity
4. Content of the Volume
4.1. Solidarity as a Public Value: Empirical Issues
4.2. Solidarity as a Moral Concept
5. Bibliography
Part I. Solidarity as a Public Value: Empirical Issues
Modernisation, Solidarity and Care in Europe the Sociologist's Tale
1. Setting the Stage
2. Modernity, Organised Solidarity, and Individual Responsibility
3. Solidarity as a Sociological Construct
4. Solidarity in a Time of Reflexive Modernity
5. Welfare States
6. Differences in Organised Solidarity between Welfare States
7. Modernity and its Threat to Solidarity
7.1. The Dimension of Affluence
7.2. The Dimension of Structural Differentiation
7.3. The Dimension of Generalisation of Values and Norms
8. Solidarity as a Public Value in European Care Systems
9. Country Studies
10. Picking up the Thread of the Volume
11. Bibliography
Popular Support for Health Care in Europe Review of the Evidence of Cross-National Surveys
1. Introduction and Research Question
2. Solidarity and its Motivational Bases
3.1. Welfare State Regimes
3.2. Institutional Characteristics of the National Care System
3.3. Individual, Social and Ideological Position
4. Hypotheses
5. Data, Operationalisation and Methodology
5.1. Data
5.2. Measures
5.3. Method of Analysis
6. Results
6.1. Attitudes towards Public Health Care
6.2. Explaining Differences in Attitudes towards Public Health Care
7. Conclusions and Discussion
8. Notes
9. Bibliography
Solidarity and Care in Sweden
1. Introduction
2. The Swedish Model
3. The Social Insurance System
3.1. The Pension System
3.2. Unemployment Benefits
3.3. Cash Benefits during Illness and Parental Insurance
4. The Health Care and Social Services System
4.1. HealthCare
4.2. The Social Services
5. Geographical Variations
6. Development over Time
7. The Non-Profit Sector and Informal Care
8. Public Opinion
9. The Public Debate
10. Swedish Welfare in Transition?
11. Conclusion
12. Notes
13. Bibliography
Solidarity and Care in the United Kingdom
1. Introduction
2. Care Services
2.1. The National Health Service - Costs and Care
2.2. The Personal Social Services
2.3. Informal Care and its Relationship with State Provision
3. Public Values
3.1. Solidarity as a Public Value
4. Solidarity as a Value in Government Policies
5. Conclusions
6. Bibliography
Solidarity and Care in Italy
1. Introduction
2. Principles and Values
2.1. Charity Versus Solidarity
2.2. Public Solidarity versus Private Social Solidarity
3. Social Welfare Policy after World War II
3.1. The Health Policy from the Post War Period to the 90s: the Reform Process
3.2. Social Care Services: a Residual Part of the Italian Welfare State
4. The Care System
4.1. Health and Social Care Services in the 90s
4.2. Funding Health Care
4.3. The Provision of Health and Social Services
4.4. Exit and Market in Health Care
4.5. Towards more Equity in Service Provision?
4.6. Summary: a Changing Care System
5. Citizen's Attitudes
5.1. HealthCare
5.2. Summary: a Complex Attitude
6. Towards which Welfare?
6.1. HealthCare
6.2. Social Care
7. Conclusions
8. Notes
9. Bibliography
Solidarity and Care in Germany
1. Introduction
2. The Changing Forms of Solidarity in the Historical Development of the Health Care System
2.1. Solidarity and Health Care: from Solidaristic Self-Help
Towards the Principle of a Welfare State
2.2. Solidarity and Social Care: the Late Intrusion of Social Solidarity into the Field of Private Care
3. Shaped by Different Principles and Values
4. Similar Principles but Different Levels
4.1. Basis Elements of the Health and Care System
4.2. Different Levels of Rights and Benefits in the Health System and the Care System
4.3. The Social Insurance - A Way to Institutionalise Solidarity
4.4. The Provision of Services
4.5. East Germany - the Same Institutions but a Different Situation
4.6. The Future for Solidarity? Reforms in Health Care During the Past Decade
4.7. Renewing Solidarity? the Politics of the New Government
5. Public Support for Solidarity in East and West Germany
5.1. Opinions on the Welfare State and the Principle of Solidarity
5.2. Attitudes towards Characteristics and Reforms of the Health Care System
5.3. Solidarity as Social Security - Different Degrees of Esteem
5.4. Informal and Family Care
5.5. Reasons For Solidarity
5.6. Conclusion: a High Approval for Both - Solidarity and Individual Responsibility
6. Where Can We Go from Here? Main Issues in the Public Debate
6.1. The System of Solidarity in Front of Changes in Labour Markets, Demography and Families
6.2. Defining the Limits of what Solidarity Should Preserve
6.3. The Statutory Insurers: Solidaristic Institutions as Market Competitors
6.4. Developing Synergies? On the Linkages between Insurance Based and Social Solidarities as well as Family Care
7. Conclusions: on the Complementarity of Social Solidarities and Citizenship Rights
8. Notes
9. Bibliography
Solidarity and Care in Austria
1. Approaching Dimensions and Levels of `Solidarity' in Health and Social Care Systems
2. Solidarity and the Political Culture in Austria
2.1. The Christian-Democratic Idea of Strengthening `Civil Society'
2.2. Solidarity In the Social-Democratic Discourse
2.3. The Relative Importance of Solidarity in the Austrian Political Discourse
3. The Social and Health Care System in Austria
3.1. History
3.2. Financing and Administration of Health Care
3.3. Social Care Services (in Kind Benefits)
3.4. Care Benefit Systems (Cash Benefits)
3.5. Long-Term Care institutions (Private, Public)
3.6. Institutionalised Solidarity in the Austrian Social and Health Care Systems in the Light of Recent Reforms
4. Solidarity as a Public Value in Austria
4.1. Solidarity as a Moral Value
4.2. Solidarity with Specific Groups
4.3. Solidarity as Expressed in Formal Social Institutions
4.3.1. Health Insurance
4.3.2. Pension Insurance
4.3.3. Reform Perspectives
4.4. Solidarity as Expressed in Informal Arrangements and Practical Help (`Micro-Solidarity')
4.4.1. Solidarity Potential and Practical Solidarity in Families and Among Relatives
5. Conclusions
6. Notes
7. Bibliography
8. Appendix
Solidarity and Care in the Netherlands
1. Introduction
2. Solidarity and the Dutch Formal and Informal Health
Care System
2.1. The Dutch Health Insurance System
2.2. The Extent of Macro Solidarity
2.3. Limits to Equal Access
2.4. Micro Solidarity and Informal Care
3. Public Values
4. Government, Solidarity and Equal Access in Recent Years
5. Concluding Remarks
6. Notes
7. Bibliography
Reforms in Health and Social Care in Europe: The Challenge to Policy
1. Introduction
2. Reform and Support
3. Tinkering With the Terms of the Contract
4. Market Mechanisms and Informal Care
5. A New Balance in Welfare State Solidarity
6. Policy Conceptions of the Welfare State
7. The `Homo Economicus' and the `Homo Ethicus'
8. The `Social Investment Society'
9. New Challenges for Welfare State Policies
9.1. The Relationship Between Formal and Informal Care
9.2. Future Policy Scenarios in Health and Social Care: Looking For a New Balance of Public and Private Interference
10. Bibliography

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