Insights from health and social care

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Abstract

A research agenda for health and social care must start with addressing longstanding structural inequalities. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted these inequalities more than ever. Research must involve the experiences of those in receipt of care as well as care providers. Care is gendered and unequal. A feminist, disability rights and intersectional approach is necessary to understand and challenge the complexities of gender, race and social class in the assumptions behind social care policy. Institutional structures, in the UK at least, have hampered thinking about health and social care as human rights. A human rights approach to research in health and social care is essential. This approach must encompass global thinking on health and social care and must address the immediate crisis in care which will result from climate change.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationA Research Agenda for Social Welfare Law, Policy and Practice
EditorsMichael Adler
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Chapter6
Pages99-115
ISBN (Electronic)9781800886339
ISBN (Print)9781800886322
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameElgar Research Agendas
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • social care
  • health
  • social welfare law
  • socio-legal studies
  • caring
  • human rights
  • inequality
  • gender
  • climate change

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