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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Captive Populations: Caring for the Young, the Sick, the Imprisoned, and the Elderly

Captive Populations: Caring for the Young, the Sick, the Imprisoned, and the Elderly

Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs
Kronenfeld, Jennie J.
Whicker, Marcia Lynn

Hardcover

Poverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0275927237
ISBN13: 9780275927233
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jul 26 1990
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

President Bush's 1000 points of light, with its deemphasis on federal services, serves to flame this decades' debate over the effectiveness of public versus private services. Does the private sector provide better services more efficiently than the public sector? Captive Populations examines this debate by comparing for-profit, nonprofit, and government service delivery for dependent populations. Focus is placed on services for captive groups: education and child-care, health-care systems, criminal justice services, and long-term care for the elderly. Kronenfeld and Whicker have directed themselves to scholars and practitioners in public health, health administration, public policy, public administration, gerontology, criminal justice, social work, and education. They review service delivery issues and provide a broad comparative perspective.

Captive Populations focuses on services for the young, the incarcerated, the sick, and the elderly. Kronenfeld and Whicker thoroughly explore the advantages and disadvantages of public versus nonprofit and private service delivery for each of these dependent populations. They then summarize the similarities and differences across the four service and captive population areas. They discuss implications of the growth of for-profit care in the United States and conclude with recommendations.

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