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Preferred term
social welfare
Definition
- Social welfare refers to all the means that societies have historically used to provide an adequate or improved quality of life for all people by helping needy individuals. Programming includes social, economic, medical, mental, and physical components. [Source: Encyclopedia of American Urban History; Social Welfare]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/social_welfare
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