Functionality of Social Assistance Institutions. Part I – Beneficiaries  of Welfare system – Study Exampled of Lodz City Inhabitants Cover Image

Funkcjonalność instytucji wsparcia społecznego. Część I – Beneficjenci systemu pomocy społecznej – badanie na przykładzie mieszkańców miasta Łodzi
Functionality of Social Assistance Institutions. Part I – Beneficiaries of Welfare system – Study Exampled of Lodz City Inhabitants

Author(s): Anna Gawron-Skarbek, Jan Krakowiak, Dorota Kaleta, Małgorzata Godala, Agnieszka Kolmaga, Franciszek Szatko
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Welfare services
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: social support; social assistance institutions; welfare; welfare system beneficiary; unemployment

Summary/Abstract: Aim of the study was to characterize a profile of average social assistance institutions (sai) beneficiary in big-city population and needs analysis determining an enjoyment of sai support. The study involved 120 inhabitants of Lodz who reported to sai to receive a necessary welfare. It was carried out with an authorial questionnaire interview. An average sai user profile characterized with: the so-called “late” working age, usually middle education, loneliness, low level of self-assessment in material standing and in health status. Social support was mainly financial, it lasted minimum a year and was caused by financial problems associated with unemployment and health deficits.

  • Issue Year: 17/2016
  • Issue No: 10.3
  • Page Range: 231-244
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish