ABSTRACT

France and the United States, the 'Welfare State' is equated with national irresponsibility and decadence; an easy way of living off foreign loans. The quantity, territorial distribution and quality of any country's social services–education, medical care, mental health, welfare, children's and other personal community services–depends enormously on the quantity and quality of staff; professional, technical, auxiliary and administrative. In considering the international aspects of the welfare manpower issues there is one further observation the author wish to make before turning to conference themes. For the rich countries of the world to take action in ways would represent a few modest steps towards the notion of 'a Welfare World'. Those countries assuming leadership with policies of this nature might then with some justification regard themselves as 'Welfare Societies'. Non-discriminating universalist services are in part the consequence of unidentifiable causality.