Back to the Past? Social assistance and the coronavirus epidemic: preliminary analysis

• Authors: Chaczko, Krzysztof , Paprota, Norbert

Abstracts

EN

The article intents to answer what conclusions drawn from the past experiences of the social assistance system may be useful for functioning of the system in the approaching economic crises produced by the coronavirus epidemic. Using comparative analysis, an attempt was made to compare selected elements of the social assistance system from the transformation period of the 1990s with the situation of social assistance in the last decade. Then, there are defined threats to the functioning of social assistance in case of the economic crisis.

Keywords

EN

social assistance; transformation; coronavirus epidemic; economic crisis

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 35(2)
• Pages: 37-53

Dates

published

2020-05-19

Contributors

author

Chaczko, Krzysztof

author

Paprota, Norbert

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.1487