Social Care Services : The Key to the Scandinavian Welfare Model Book

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1	Introduction	1
2	New policies, new words - the service concept in Scandinavian social policy	9
3	A multitude of universal, public services - how and why did four Scandinavian countries get their social care service model?	27
4	The development of local authority social services in Iceland	51
5	From poor relief to social rights and social care services' clienthood	77
6	Local government in Scandinavia: autonomous or integrated into the welfare state?	95
7	The Scandinavian model as seen from a local perspective	109
8	Why are social care services a gender issue?	131
9	The Scandinavian social service state in comparison	156
App	A statistical summary of the development of social services for children, elderly and disabled in the Scandinavian countries	178