Service delivery, community development, and disability.
Service delivery has traditionally been based on market forces. When this is the case, the community becomes a silent partner in this process. Services, accordingly, are directed mostly to correcting personal ills and have little to do with community uplift. Another model, based on the work of Amartya Sen, is available that conceptualizes interventions in a very different way. If understood in the context of community development, the focus of services is social change, rather than merely personal rehabilitation. This reorientation is discussed in this article.
Murphy
John W
JW
Department of Sociology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA. j.murphy@miami.edu
D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D011639:Public Opinion; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*