Alex Mold
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719095313
- eISBN:
- 9781781708606
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719095313.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter examines attempts to represent the patient-consumer during the 1970s, focusing particularly on the part played by the Community Health Councils (CHCs). It suggests that a lack of clarity ...
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This chapter examines attempts to represent the patient-consumer during the 1970s, focusing particularly on the part played by the Community Health Councils (CHCs). It suggests that a lack of clarity about what patient-consumer representation was, who was being represented, how this could best be achieved, and its ability to have any impact on health services, beset the CHCs from the outset. Uncertainty about the meaning and purpose of patient representation manifested itself in conflicting views about the CHCs’ role and effectiveness that impinged upon their ability to represent patients’ interests. Moreover, the CHCs had to contend with better established and more powerful interest groups within health care such as health professionals and health service administrators. Beginning with the origins of the CHCs, moving on to consider the meanings of representation, and then assessing the effectiveness of the councils, this chapter will demonstrate that having a voice and being heard were not the same thing.Less
This chapter examines attempts to represent the patient-consumer during the 1970s, focusing particularly on the part played by the Community Health Councils (CHCs). It suggests that a lack of clarity about what patient-consumer representation was, who was being represented, how this could best be achieved, and its ability to have any impact on health services, beset the CHCs from the outset. Uncertainty about the meaning and purpose of patient representation manifested itself in conflicting views about the CHCs’ role and effectiveness that impinged upon their ability to represent patients’ interests. Moreover, the CHCs had to contend with better established and more powerful interest groups within health care such as health professionals and health service administrators. Beginning with the origins of the CHCs, moving on to consider the meanings of representation, and then assessing the effectiveness of the councils, this chapter will demonstrate that having a voice and being heard were not the same thing.
Carolyn Colvin, Jay Arduser, and Elizabeth Willmore
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041211
- eISBN:
- 9780252099809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041211.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter explores and challenge the perception that immigrant parents demonstrate a kind of caring and advocacy that differs from dominant majority parents. It situates the case of one Salvadoran ...
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This chapter explores and challenge the perception that immigrant parents demonstrate a kind of caring and advocacy that differs from dominant majority parents. It situates the case of one Salvadoran parent in the larger context of research that documents the differing communication practices of immigrant parents and teachers who teach their children. Teachers may misinterpret communication practices and participation in school events as a lack of caring. Using the story of Margarita, a Salvadoran parent of three children, the chapter demonstrates the experiences of one immigrant parent interacting with rural teachers to show how Latina/o parents are involved and actively advocate for their children’s academic futures. It concludes with a call to educators to adopt new visions of working with immigrant parents in jointly constructed activities where both parents and teachers assume shared roles of learning to solve problems, and to learn to work across diverse experiences.Less
This chapter explores and challenge the perception that immigrant parents demonstrate a kind of caring and advocacy that differs from dominant majority parents. It situates the case of one Salvadoran parent in the larger context of research that documents the differing communication practices of immigrant parents and teachers who teach their children. Teachers may misinterpret communication practices and participation in school events as a lack of caring. Using the story of Margarita, a Salvadoran parent of three children, the chapter demonstrates the experiences of one immigrant parent interacting with rural teachers to show how Latina/o parents are involved and actively advocate for their children’s academic futures. It concludes with a call to educators to adopt new visions of working with immigrant parents in jointly constructed activities where both parents and teachers assume shared roles of learning to solve problems, and to learn to work across diverse experiences.
Joanna Richardson and A. Ka Tat Tsang (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781847428950
- eISBN:
- 9781447307761
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847428950.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The eviction at Dale Farm in the UK in 2011 brought the conflicting issues relating to Gypsy and Traveller accommodation to the attention of the world's media. However, as the furore surrounding the ...
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The eviction at Dale Farm in the UK in 2011 brought the conflicting issues relating to Gypsy and Traveller accommodation to the attention of the world's media. However, as the furore surrounding the eviction has died down, the very pressing issues of accommodation need, inequality of access to education, healthcare and employment, and exclusion from British (and European) society is still very much evident. This topical book examines and debates a range of themes facing Gypsies and Travellers in British Society, including health, social policy, employment and education. It also looks at the dilemmas faced in representing disadvantaged minority groups in media and political discourse, theories on power, control and justice and the impact of European initiatives on inclusion. Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and inclusion in British Society will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers, practitioners, those working in the media, police, education and health services, and of course to Gypsies and Travellers themselves.Less
The eviction at Dale Farm in the UK in 2011 brought the conflicting issues relating to Gypsy and Traveller accommodation to the attention of the world's media. However, as the furore surrounding the eviction has died down, the very pressing issues of accommodation need, inequality of access to education, healthcare and employment, and exclusion from British (and European) society is still very much evident. This topical book examines and debates a range of themes facing Gypsies and Travellers in British Society, including health, social policy, employment and education. It also looks at the dilemmas faced in representing disadvantaged minority groups in media and political discourse, theories on power, control and justice and the impact of European initiatives on inclusion. Gypsies and Travellers: Empowerment and inclusion in British Society will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers, practitioners, those working in the media, police, education and health services, and of course to Gypsies and Travellers themselves.
Emma Stone
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447314899
- eISBN:
- 9781447314929
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447314899.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
In this chapter the Director of Policy and Research at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,[ one of the major independent research and policy NGOs in the United Kingdom with a commitment to influence, ...
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In this chapter the Director of Policy and Research at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,[ one of the major independent research and policy NGOs in the United Kingdom with a commitment to influence, inform and inspire social change], provides a tellingly honest and highly illuminating account of how the JRF conceives, develops and funds its research. This account of the way in which she and her colleagues seek to address the multiple challenges of working to develop research that will inform policy and practice provides a valuable benchmark for a comparative analysis of their own and other contexts. The chapter offers a counterpoint to the other chapters in revealing areas where the interests of the researcher and the funder may not comfortably come into alignment.Less
In this chapter the Director of Policy and Research at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation,[ one of the major independent research and policy NGOs in the United Kingdom with a commitment to influence, inform and inspire social change], provides a tellingly honest and highly illuminating account of how the JRF conceives, develops and funds its research. This account of the way in which she and her colleagues seek to address the multiple challenges of working to develop research that will inform policy and practice provides a valuable benchmark for a comparative analysis of their own and other contexts. The chapter offers a counterpoint to the other chapters in revealing areas where the interests of the researcher and the funder may not comfortably come into alignment.
Nicolas G. Rosenthal
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835555
- eISBN:
- 9781469601755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869994_rosenthal.10
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
The United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) was founded in 1973, with the assistance of the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, to serve the Indian community of Los Angeles. ...
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The United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) was founded in 1973, with the assistance of the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, to serve the Indian community of Los Angeles. They provide a myriad of social services, including hot meals, showers, beds, referrals, and emergency medical care to American Indians who walked in off the street. This chapter discusses the rise of grassroots Indian activism and how the shifts in U.S. Indian policy and American Indian activism, particularly the public protests of the Red Power Movement, influenced the efforts of UAII to serve urban Indian populations.Less
The United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) was founded in 1973, with the assistance of the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, to serve the Indian community of Los Angeles. They provide a myriad of social services, including hot meals, showers, beds, referrals, and emergency medical care to American Indians who walked in off the street. This chapter discusses the rise of grassroots Indian activism and how the shifts in U.S. Indian policy and American Indian activism, particularly the public protests of the Red Power Movement, influenced the efforts of UAII to serve urban Indian populations.
Katharine Fortin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198808381
- eISBN:
- 9780191846106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198808381.003.0008
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration, Public International Law
Chapter 8 employs the theories identified in Chapter 7 to consider whether it is possible to argue that armed groups are bound by the major human rights treaties. The chapter conducts detailed ...
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Chapter 8 employs the theories identified in Chapter 7 to consider whether it is possible to argue that armed groups are bound by the major human rights treaties. The chapter conducts detailed analysis of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It also examines the main human rights treaties which it argues hold most textual potential to bind armed groups, namely the Convention against Torture, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.Less
Chapter 8 employs the theories identified in Chapter 7 to consider whether it is possible to argue that armed groups are bound by the major human rights treaties. The chapter conducts detailed analysis of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It also examines the main human rights treaties which it argues hold most textual potential to bind armed groups, namely the Convention against Torture, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.
