Social/personal services

Social/personal services—restaurants, health care... 

Mike Scott is a Research Social Worker with the Liverpool Personal Service Society. 

If the unemployed have serious personal and/or social problems or are conceived by the Employment Services staff to have serious problems, it is common that they are categorized as not at the disposal of the labour market or not job ready, with the consequence that they are at risk not to be offered any, or at least limited, personal service (Makitalo 2002). Similar patterns are observed for unemployed that lack certain skills (e.g. language skills) or have skills for which there is limited demand. People that have not yet established themselves on the labour market, such as youth and immigrants, can also experience difficulties in getting adequate service at the Employment Services. Nevertheless, since there are few directions in the regulations in terms of who will get service and who will not, this leaves considerable room for professional discretion. 

Based on the input coefficients table of producers prices, 52 sub-industrial sectors are combined into 9 main sectors including Agricultural, Forestry, Fishery and Animal Husbandry (A), Manufacturing (B), Electricity, Gas and Water (C), Construction (D), Trade, Accommodation, and Food and Beverage (E), Transportation and Communication (F), Banking, Insurance Entities and Real Estate (G), Industry, Commerce and Services (H), and Social and Personal Services (I). The EIO technical coefficients for these nine sectors are shown in Table 26.2. 

F. 26.2 The carbon footprint assessment of industrial sectors by EIO-LCA. A agricultural, forestry, fishery and animal husbandry, B manufacturing, C electricity, gas and water, D construction, E trade, accommodation and food and beverage, F transportation and communication, G banking, insurance entities and real estate, industry, commerce and services, I social and personal services... 

Adverse consequences of drinking include a variety of social, legal, medical, and psychiatric problems (Babor et al. 1987, 2003). Alcohol is among the top four causes of mortality in 1988, 107,800 deaths, or about 5% of all deaths in the United States, were attributed to alcohol-related causes (Stinson and DeBakey 1992). Approximately 17% of alcohol-related deaths were directly attributable to alcohol, 38% resulted from diseases indirecdy attributable to alcohol, and 45% were attributable to alcohol-related traumatic injury (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 1994). Alcohol-related mortality declined during the latter part of the twentieth century. For example, the age-adjusted mortality rate from liver cirrhosis in 1993 (7.9 deaths per 100,000 persons) was just over half the rate in 1970 (14.6 deaths per 100,000) (Saadat-mand et al. 1997), and the proportion of automobile fatalities that was related to the use of alcohol fell to a two-decade low of 33.6% in 1993 (Lane et al. 1997). 

Netten A, Curtis L (2000). Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 1999. Canterbury Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent. 

Although many of the problems related to drug misuse are personal and social as well as medical and legal, current treatment responses have been strongly influenced by the historical emphasis on opioids in drug legislation to the detriment of a naturally evolving and wider multidisciplinary treatment and rehabilitation service. 

CAS NUMBER. This is the unique numerical identifier for the compound based on Chemical Abstract Services registry. It can be used to look up information on the compound. It serves as the compound s unique code similar to a person s Social Security number or a car s license plate, but it is even more generic because it is internationally recognized. 

While cocaine addiction can be treated successfully, there is no one program that is effective for everyone. Principles of Effective Drug Treatment, published by NIDA, recommends a multi-faceted approach to treatment. It suggests behavioral therapies, medications, rehabilitation and social services. The idea is to treat the whole person. 

The same phenomenon occurred in Britain. Ida Smedley (see Chap. 2) was used as a benchmark for women applicants for the Position of Reader in Chemistry at the King s College of Household and Social Science (see Chap. 3) "... it would be of great value to the Department to secure the services of a woman with the high scientific standing and personality of Dr. Ida [Smedley] Maclean. 17... 

This service involves social marketing and targeted media public communication the provision of accessible health information resources at the community level active collaboration with personal health care providers to reinforce health promotion messages and programs and joint health education programs with schools, churches, and worksites. 

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