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The book offers an expert perspective on social policy, a discipline that touches important spheres of human life and whose settings significantly affect socio-economic development. It addresses both the theoretical aspects of social policy and the sub-policies that affect the functioning of important social systems and their elements (in particular, social security, the labour market, education, health, family and housing). It presents social policy as a way of understanding and dealing with reality that integrates and develops knowledge from a range of related disciplines, while defining a robust theoretical framework for social policy action. The book takes into account the main developments in Czech social policy and contains relevant theoretical approaches presented in a clear and comprehensible form. In this way, it enables us to explain and understand many of the problems we see around us and which are often the subject of debate (e.g. pension reform, social exclusion, the effectiveness of social benefits, fertility levels, access to health care).