welfare
palliative care
family support services
counselling
care of the disabled
youth services
economic concepts
social work
children's services
concepts
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
integrated care network