care of the disabled
children's services
concepts
counselling
economic concepts
family support services
integrated care network
palliative care
social care
The range of services provide by organizations, private and public, to enhance life, ranging from education and public health to the delivery of meals to the elderly and disabled. In the past the state played a large role in the delivery of these services, but under the influence of neoliberal policies' attempts to shed them either on to the community or into the private-for-profit sector (care in the community; citizenship; corporatization; welfare services; welfare state). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Social Services]
social services
social work
welfare
youth services