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COVID-19 pandemic and the determinants of depressive symptoms among senior citizens of India: An empirical investigation COVID - 19大流行和印度老年人抑郁症状的决定因素:一项实证调查

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-09 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12286

Koustubh Kanti Ray

{"title":"COVID-19 pandemic and the determinants of depressive symptoms among senior citizens of India: An empirical investigation","authors":"Koustubh Kanti Ray","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12286","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12286","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic inflicted multiple threats to individuals' physical, mental, and financial health conditions. The pandemic-related restrictive behaviors pose serious consequences for public health and increase the risk of mental illness among individuals, particularly among older citizens. The combination of their pre-existing illnesses, social isolation, COVID fear, and financial adversity frequently aggravates their condition and leads to depression and mental illness. Thus, the present study investigates the mental health status and the determinants of depressive symptoms among older adults of Bhubaneswar during the COVID pandemic context. The study used the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) to measure their depressive symptoms. The social isolation parameter is measured with the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale. Financial self-efficacy, COVID-19-related psychological fear, and comorbidity health status are other determinants considered. A chi-square test and multinomial logistic regression (MLR) models are adopted to find the probable risk factors that may influence depressive symptoms among older people. The results indicate that comorbidity health conditions, a social isolation mindset, and financial efficacy issues are the significant determinants that drive an older person towards different depression categories. The improvement of these influential factors can lead senior citizens to avoid any health emergency like COVID pandemic. In the event of a public health emergency, such as COVID pandemic, the government could use the study's findings to devise methods for assisting the elderly. Society as a whole should be aware of these findings, which can lead to depressive symptoms, and offer support to the elderly. Future research may concentrate on identifying the causes of depressive symptoms in different age groups or in the presence of specific comorbidity health conditions. Future research may also investigate the factors influencing depressive symptoms in a specific occupation.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"196-207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47398004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Kazakhstan's implementation of international conventions on the protection of children's rights (juvenile responsibility) 哈萨克斯坦执行保护儿童权利国际公约的情况(少年责任)

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12284

Elmira Duissenkyzy, Daulet Baideldinov, Aizhan Zhatkanbayeva, Ualikhan Akhatov, Marat Zhumagulov

{"title":"Kazakhstan's implementation of international conventions on the protection of children's rights (juvenile responsibility)","authors":"Elmira Duissenkyzy, Daulet Baideldinov, Aizhan Zhatkanbayeva, Ualikhan Akhatov, Marat Zhumagulov","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12284","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12284","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to analyze international experience and legislation on the protection of children's rights, to assess the state of this issue in the national space of Kazakhstan, to conduct a comparative analysis and the level of implementation of the provisions of international conventions. To achieve the set goals and tasks, to ensure the reliability of the results and conclusions obtained, a system of methods of scientific cognition was used, which, in conjunction with general logical methods and techniques, made it possible to comprehensively and effectively investigate the administrative and legal support for the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of child protection. The formation of the international legal framework for the formation of a system for the protection of children's rights is studied. The level of Kazakhstan's accession to the implementation of international documents in the field of children's rights protection has been determined. The main directions of non-compliance with international regulations in Kazakhstan according to the conclusions of the UN (United Nations) committees are described. The level of priority of this direction of state policy for the government of the Republic of Kazakhstan and its normative regulation is assessed. The system of juvenile justice in the country and the situation of children in the Republic of Kazakhstan is analyzed according to the reports of the relevant authorities.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"176-184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46596968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Effect of child benefit payments on child outcome expenditures in South Korea 韩国儿童福利金对儿童成果支出的影响

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12283

Jinwoo Lee, Michael S. Pollard, Rafiq Dossani

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Social work for vulnerable and marginalized people during COVID-19 in Japan 2019冠状病毒病期间日本弱势和边缘人群的社会工作

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12282

Yoh Murayama, Masami Hasebe, Sachiko Yamazaki, Jun Yamaguchi, Erika Kobayashi

{"title":"Social work for vulnerable and marginalized people during COVID-19 in Japan","authors":"Yoh Murayama, Masami Hasebe, Sachiko Yamazaki, Jun Yamaguchi, Erika Kobayashi","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12282","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12282","url":null,"abstract":"During the Coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), working conditions became increasingly difficult for social workers, as they had to deal with new challenges and added workloads. This study describes the difficulties faced by social workers of the Self-Reliance Support System in Japan and clarifies the solution for each difficulty while conducting their duties to support vulnerable people during COVID-19. To this end, we conducted an open-ended questionnaire survey and an interview survey. The data were analyzed using qualitative coding. The results showed that the difficulties faced in consultation support work included supporting hitherto socially invisible groups such as sole traders and foreigners. Social workers also faced an ethical dilemma, as they could not provide support to clients who “did not try to solve their problems” or for whom “interventional attempts did not lead to counseling support” and who only sought benefits at the risk of becoming isolated and impoverished. Following this, consultants collaborated to resolve such difficulties while maximizing the use of various local resources. The study's findings clarify that it would be effective to understand the difficulties faced by social workers to obtain hints toward their resolution.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 3","pages":"162-175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42984606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Present and prospective health status of older adults in the Philippines: The role of education 菲律宾老年人目前和未来的健康状况:教育的作用

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12281

Paolo Miguel Manalang Vicerra

{"title":"Present and prospective health status of older adults in the Philippines: The role of education","authors":"Paolo Miguel Manalang Vicerra","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12281","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12281","url":null,"abstract":"Utilizing current information to project prospective ill health prevalence can help prepare the country to ensure the well-being of older people. The prevalence of ill health in terms of physical, psychological, and cognitive health dimensions was estimated by age, sex, and education attainment level using the 2018 Longitudinal Study on Aging and Health in the Philippines. Subsequently, the said rates were integrated into population projection estimates from 2020 to 2080. It was observed that the depression prevalence rate among older people was highest at above 40%, while physical and cognitive limitations were at around 18% and 22% respectively. It was also found that prevalence rates of ill health increased with age and that ill health was more prevalent among women than men, particularly at more advanced ages. The use of population projections has shown that education differentials in the analyses estimate lower prevalence rates of ill health for both sexes. The findings provide estimates for the prospective care needs of the older population in the Philippines. It was also suggested that education may possibly have preventive effects on ill health. Utilizing present information in order to prepare for issues can be beneficial for securing the well-being of older adults.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 2","pages":"150-158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48719786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Who is my family?: A comparative study of the family boundary in East Asia 谁是我的家人？：东亚家庭边界的比较研究

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-02-13 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12279

Suk Eun, Seung Jae An

{"title":"Who is my family?: A comparative study of the family boundary in East Asia","authors":"Suk Eun, Seung Jae An","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12279","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12279","url":null,"abstract":"Most Asian countries are regarded as Confucian countries although each has its own historical and cultural background. Little is known about how people in different Asian countries perceive their family boundaries. This study is an attempt to compare the perception of the family in China, Japan, and Korea. We examined the family perception and found substantial differences among the three. Chinese people showed the widest and paternally extended perception of family. Data from people in Korea nearly matched data from China, but family perception developed bilaterally. People in Japan, however, perceived only blood-tied, intimate relations as family members. In addition, the perception of the family was not substantially different between the genders in Japan and China, but in South Korea, men perceived family boundaries more widely than women, implying that women have a greater family burden than men in Korea. Considering the heterogeneity in family perceptions in these countries, this paper tries to explain how social institutions interact with individuals and impact the perception of family. Finally, this paper concludes that it is inappropriate to tie the three East Asian countries as ‘Confucian civilizations’ in terms of family perception.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 2","pages":"137-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43412787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Social harmony and community wellbeing 社会和谐与社区福祉

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12278

M. Rezaul Islam

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Employment status, material hardship, and mental health among low-income working-age adults in South Korea 韩国低收入工作年龄成年人的就业状况、物质困难和心理健康

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12277

RaeHyuck Lee, Jaeseung Kim, Joyce Shim

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Economic and social inclusion of person with disability and transgender through skills development program of BRAC: A qualitative study BRAC技能发展项目对残疾人和跨性别者经济社会包容的定性研究

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12276

Tanvir Shatil, Md Kamruzzaman, M. Rezaul Islam

{"title":"Economic and social inclusion of person with disability and transgender through skills development program of BRAC: A qualitative study","authors":"Tanvir Shatil, Md Kamruzzaman, M. Rezaul Islam","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12276","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12276","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on the Skills Training for Advancing Resources (STAR) project for the youth initiative of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) in Bangladesh. The objective was to explore the consequences of social and economic inclusion of this project for the persons with disability (PWDs) and transgender (TG) youth people. The research focused on how inclusive programmatic interventions created multidimensional impacts among the “marginalized” and “excluded” PWD and TG youths at the grassroots level. This study adopted a qualitative approach where in-depth case interviews and observation were applied for data collection. PWD and TG graduates, master craft persons (MCPs), employers, and program staff members were the participants in this study. Results found that PWD and TG youths faced vulnerabilities and social stigma in their lives and livelihood trajectories due to their physical inability and low level of social dignity. The STAR project has a certain level of contribution to the livelihoods of PWD and TG people, where these helped them to gain their social, cultural, and economic capital. Findings would be an important guideline for policymakers, NGO managers, and human rights workers.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 2","pages":"115-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46366281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate: A literature review and future research agenda 将印度尼西亚纳入全球福利制度辩论：文献综述和未来研究议程

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Asian Social Work and Policy Review Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI: 10.1111/aswp.12275

Tauchid Komara Yuda, Stefan Kühner

{"title":"Bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate: A literature review and future research agenda","authors":"Tauchid Komara Yuda, Stefan Kühner","doi":"10.1111/aswp.12275","DOIUrl":"10.1111/aswp.12275","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on welfare state regimes have been dominated by consideration of rich OECD/European and increasingly East Asian countries/territories, leaving South Asian cases such as Indonesia underexplored. The few existing studies that have explicitly tried to conceptualize the Indonesian welfare regime have resulted in little consensus. To address the resulting lack of clarity, this article reviews scholarly articles relevant to bringing Indonesia into the global welfare regime debate, specifically encapsulating how the country has been classified compared with its East Asia counterparts. Accordingly, we find that existing studies have mainly concentrated on the Indonesian health care and social protection expansion, which has led authors to conclude that this evolution demonstrates Indonesia's transition away from welfare productivism. By contrast, we argue that Indonesia's productivist characteristics have largely prevailed while informal networks, clientelism, strong families, and the limited effectiveness of the civil society movement created a specific social politics in Indonesia. We thus conclude that the causal mechanisms typically attributed to welfare development in more developed welfare geographies, including East Asia, cannot fully explain the evident institutional formation in the Indonesian case. The future research agenda for studying the welfare regimes in Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries is discussed.","PeriodicalId":44567,"journal":{"name":"Asian Social Work and Policy Review","volume":"17 2","pages":"103-114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47480918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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