John F. Roatch Global Lecture Series on Social Policy and Practice
"Describing financing of health care systems in Europe with its now 27 member states is a challenge that requires the stating of criteria against which the different systems might be evaluated. The evaluation cannot be restricted to examining financial resources, but has to include at least the basic benefit performances of health schemes (plans). The main countries to be examined here are France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and—despite the fact that it is not an EU member—Switzerland."
"My goal today is to discuss the processes of social integration of temporary workers from Spain into Germany so that the panel can compare these experiences with those of the Hispanic/Latino workers in the U.S...I am especially interested (as you saw in the introduction) in looking for the links between the more subjective aspects of social integration and the macrostructural conditions (juridical, political, economical, etc.) of the lives of the immigrants."