A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life

Social welfare plays an important role on helping needy people build their future. There is no doubt that a good social welfare program in any country could indirectly reduce rates of crimes and violence. In this study, we examine the quality of life between welfare receivers and ordinary people. Th...

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Main Author: Mohammad Reza Iravani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2012-01-01
Series:Management Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2011_70.pdf
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description Social welfare plays an important role on helping needy people build their future. There is no doubt that a good social welfare program in any country could indirectly reduce rates of crimes and violence. In this study, we examine the quality of life between welfare receivers and ordinary people. The proposed study of this paper designs a questionnaire consists of nine questions and distribute between two groups of 50 people. The questions are based on Likert scale from very low to very high and the feedbacks are analyzed using some statistical tests. The results indicate that typical ordinary people have better life style in terms of nutrition, healthcare, housing and shelter, education, employment, income, social relationships, marital status, entertainment than welfare receivers do.
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spelling doaj.art-88e507c016404ab9ad0f6b3ba51466f82022-12-22T00:28:36ZengGrowing ScienceManagement Science Letters1923-93351923-93432012-01-0121221228A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of lifeMohammad Reza IravaniSocial welfare plays an important role on helping needy people build their future. There is no doubt that a good social welfare program in any country could indirectly reduce rates of crimes and violence. In this study, we examine the quality of life between welfare receivers and ordinary people. The proposed study of this paper designs a questionnaire consists of nine questions and distribute between two groups of 50 people. The questions are based on Likert scale from very low to very high and the feedbacks are analyzed using some statistical tests. The results indicate that typical ordinary people have better life style in terms of nutrition, healthcare, housing and shelter, education, employment, income, social relationships, marital status, entertainment than welfare receivers do.http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2011_70.pdfQuality of lifeWelfare programsSocial welfareLife expectation
spellingShingle Mohammad Reza Iravani
A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
Management Science Letters
Quality of life
Welfare programs
Social welfare
Life expectation
title A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
title_full A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
title_fullStr A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
title_full_unstemmed A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
title_short A social work study on welfare receivers' quality of life
title_sort social work study on welfare receivers quality of life
topic Quality of life
Welfare programs
Social welfare
Life expectation
url http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol2/msl_2011_70.pdf
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