All well in the welfare state?
Subtitle: welfare, well-being and the politics of happiness
By: edited by Carl Marklund
Series: NordWel studies in historical welfare state research -- 5
Publisher: Nordic Centre of Excellence NordWel
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789521083068
Subjects: Public welfare administration; Well-being; Political aspects; Public welfare; Welfare state; Happiness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Bent Greve; title: Introduction / Carl Marklund; title: Social inequalities in health and well-being- a review of research and the case of Israel / Varda Soskolne; title: Happy without reason? Mental illness and the 'right' to happiness in Sweden / Katarina Piuva; title: Who needs mental health services? Mental health care planning and the image of the service user in Finland / Anna Alanko & Carl Marklund; title: Happy without money of their own? On the reasons for teenagers' participation in paid work- the case of Iceland / Margrť Einarsdt̤tir; title: Somewhere over the high seas there is a land of my dreams- happiness and life satisfaction among immigrants in Europe / Olli Kangas; title: Public health and solidarity- how to succeed in the population-based prevention of alcohol problems / Pekka Sulkunen & Trygve Ugland; title: The return of happiness- the end of utopia? Rankings of subjective well-being and the politics of happiness / Carl Marklund.