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Intended as a resource for those who have responsibilities to safeguard workers' health and safety, especially in developing countries. Covers the fields of toxicology, occupational hygiene, occupational cancer, occupational diseases of agricultural workers, occupational safety, psycho- social problems and institutions and organizations active in the field of occupational health and safety.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to Spain's major political and economic institutions, analysing their role, structure and functions, as well as their relationship to each other.
For the past thirty years scholars have debated the role of political parties in fiscal, monetary, and social welfare policies. Some argue that Social Democratic parties are more committed to advancing and maintaining welfare protection, while others claim that party ideology has ceased to explain parties' policy choices due to the constraining forces of economic globalization, deindustrialization, and electoral volatility. Indeed, the empirical findings in support of partisan arguments are mixed. Much of this rich literature treats political parties as uniform and cohesive entities when it comes to forming government policy. Ideologues, Partisans, and Loyalists challenges this assumption an...
En este libro se estudia desde la perspectiva de la historia económica el desarrollo de la cobertura sanitaria en España implementada por el Estado, el mercado, la familia y la sociedad civil desde finales del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad. Se toman como referencia las etapas internacionales básicas sobre el desarrollo del seguro de salud, aunque destacando las particularidades del caso español, en especial las divergencias posteriores a la guerra civil y durante el franquismo, cuando España se alejó de los comportamientos de los países más desarrollados que estaban gestando un modelo sanitario vinculado al Estado de bienestar. La obra, que pretende contribuir al debate actual sobre el modelo sanitario y su gestión pública y/o privada, hace hincapié en el elevado coste de recursos humanos y financieros que se han invertido históricamente y que no pueden ni deben infravalorarse a la hora de realizar reformas coyunturales o con miras a corto plazo.