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The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy |
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Mark Exworthy/ 9781447368601/ Price:GBP 27.99
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In its 75th anniversary year, this book examines the history, evolution and future of the NHS.
With contributions from leading researchers and experts across a range of fields, such as finance, health policy, primary and secondary care, quality and patient safety, health inequalities and patient and public involvement, it explores the history of the NHS drawing on narrative, evaluative and analytical approaches.
The book frames its analysis around the four key axes from which the NHS has evolved: governance, centralisation and decentralisation, public and private, and professional and managerial.
It will address the salient factors which shape the direction and pace of change in the NHS. As such, the book provides a long-term critical review of the NHS and key themes in health policy. |
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Gut Microbiome and Human Health: Insights and Applications |
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Nancy Bonham/ 9781682519868/ Price:US$ 165.00
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The gut microbiome refers to the diverse community of microorganisms residing in the human digestive tract. Research in this field investigates the relationship between the gut microbiome and various aspects of human health, including digestion, nutrient absorption, immune function, and disease susceptibility. Understanding the gut microbiome's role may lead to novel therapies targeting microbial imbalances to improve overall health and prevent certain disorders. This book explores the complex interactions between the gut microbiome and human health, including its influence on digestion, immunity, and disease development. |
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Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Supporting Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine |
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Aleksandra Thomson/ 9781447367994/ Price:GBP 12.99
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Today¡¦s academic and research institutions recognise the importance of diverse research teams in health and biomedical science, in terms of the business case, social justice and the common good.
This ¡¥go-to¡¦ book familiarises readers with the key equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues in relation to research careers and researcher development. Bringing together the challenges and solutions to EDI matters with an evidence-based approach in one volume, the book offers practical strategies and interventions for academic and research settings.
This is an essential guide for equality planning team members, researchers, HRM officers and managers across academia and research. |
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Building Digital Health Competencies in Developing Countries |
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Sara D. Garduno-Diaz/ 9781774695364/ Price:US$ 175.00
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In the context of this book, digital health competency refers to "the use of information and communications technology in support of health and health-related fields" (WHO, 2019). The concept of digital health may appear overwhelming upon first glance. Numerous health care services as well as providers employ classic paper-based systems for information, and taking up technology is not within the possibilities and expertise of several health systems. Initiating with digital health, nevertheless, is similar to implementing any novel program, often with more questions than answers. To begin, especially for practitioners with limited or no background with technology, comes "What can digital health really do?" The correct answers may not always be technology, yet if it is, an abundance of informed decisions must be taken. Various of these decisions center around trade-offs, and even though no "right" answer really exists, some options have greater context-relevance and are more feasible than others when considering developing countries. Taking up a participatory angle to developing the envisioned digital tool with end users is paramount. Empowering health care professionals to try out a concept or model a situation with the potential digital health tool to potentially outphase their current systems can shine light on key insights. It is then possible to fine tune top ideas into even better answers with the added perspective of those who will be affected. |
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Safety Science and Technology |
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Zoran Gacovski/ 9781774695289/ Price:US$ 180.00
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In this book we present different topics from safety science and technology, including: safety-critical systems, safety simulation techniques, safety in transport and vehicles, and safety analysis in medicine (hospitals). Section 1 focuses on safety-critical systems, describing architecture level safety analyses for safety-critical systems, safety assessment of nuclear power plants for liquefaction consequences, the Fukushima nuclear accident: insights on the safety aspects, an augmented framework for formal analysis of safety critical systems, and concepts of safety critical systems unification approach & security assurance process. Section 2 focuses on safety simulation techniques, describing the marine safety simulation based electronic chart display and information system, improved modelling and assessment of the performance of firefighting means in the frame of a fire PSA, scenario grouping and classification methodology for postprocessing of data generated by integrated deterministic-probabilistic safety analysis, demonstration of emulator-based Bayesian calibration of safety analysis codes: theory and formulation, microscopic simulation-based high occupancy vehicle lane safety and operation assessment: a case study. Section 3 focuses on safety in transport and vehicles, describing safety of autonomous vehicles, studying the safety impact of autonomous vehicles using simulation-based surrogate safety measures, advanced modeling and simulation of vehicle active aerodynamic safety, and analyzing driving safety using vehicle-water-filled rutting dynamics model and simulation. Section 4 focuses on safety analysis in medicine (hospitals), describing establishing patient safety in intensive care - a grounded theory, analysis of critical incidents during anesthesia in a tertiary hospital, healthcare professional's perception of patient safety measured by the hospital survey on patient safety culture: a systematic review and meta-analysis, and uncertainty of clinical thinking and patient safety. |
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How the CPC Tackled Epidemics |
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From the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) to the early years of the People's Republic of China (PRC), and now to the era of reform and opening-up that started in the early 1980s, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has always taken epidemic prevention and control as one of its key tasks. In How the CPC Tackled Epidemics, the author provides a panoramic account of all the major epidemics the CPC has confronted since its birth in 1921, such as the plague outbreak in northern China in the early 1930s, the hepatitis A outbreak in 1988, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the most recent COVID-19 pandemic. The book also offers a detailed discussion of the CPC' approaches to epidemic prevention and control over the past century, including building a comprehensive health care system covering both urban and rural areas, developing a law-based system for epidemic prevention and control, and launching publicity campaigns to raise public awareness of the importance of good public and personal hygiene, among others.
What's New
Presents an exhaustive analysis of all the major epidemics that the CPC has tackled since its birth |
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Acceleration of the Biopsychosocial Model in Public Health |
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Simon George Taukeni/ 9781668464960/ Price:US$ 325.00
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It is generally well-established that the biomedical model is informed on the assumption that the occurrence of the disease is the result of biological molecules inside the body. This is seen in the view of the biopsychosocial model that the biomedical model is excluding the importance of psychological, social, economic, environmental, spiritual, and behavioral dimensions of the illness. It is essential to create better awareness to accelerate the use of the biopsychosocial model¡Xfocusing on the individual as a whole rather than the illness alone.
Acceleration of the Biopsychosocial Model in Public Health accelerates the inclusion of the biopsychosocial model in the public health sector in order to achieve universal health coverage. It provides a better understanding of the role of various factors, such as psychological, social, emotional, economic, and behavioral, that are responsible for the development of diseases in order to develop comprehensive prevention and intervention measures. Covering topics such as psychological well-being, public health awareness, and system dynamics, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for public health officials, health therapists, health educators, health psychologists, occupational therapists, palliative care providers, community healthcare providers, hospital administrators, health professionals, medical students, medical libraries, researchers, and academicians.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBiopsychosocial Model
¡EDiabetes Management
¡EMale Learners
¡ENeuropsychological Functions
¡EPsychological Well-Being
¡EPsychosocial Behaviors
¡EPublic Health Awareness
¡ESex Intimacy
¡EStoke Patient Optimism
¡ESystem Dynamics |
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Making Health Public: A Manifesto for a New Social Contract |
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Peter Littlejohns/ 9781447371267/ Price:GBP 40.00
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A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as a serious health hazard. COVID-19 revealed the weaknesses of the UK's public health system, once thought to be among the best in the world.
Against this background, this book examines the organisational and political barriers to an effective public health system showcased through the UK. It urges that what is needed is a new social contract, in which health policy is truly public. |
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The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy |
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Mark Exworthy/ 9781447368595/ Price:GBP 80.00
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What Is Public Trust in the Health System?: Insights into Health Data Use |
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Felix Gille/ 9781447367338/ Price:GBP 45.00
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This book explores the concept of public trust in health systems.
In the context of recent events, including public response to interventions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination uptake and the use of health data and digital health, this important book uses empirical evidence to address why public trust is vital to a well-functioning health system.
In doing so, it provides a comprehensive contemporary explanation of public trust, how it affects health systems and how it can be nurtured and maintained as an integral component of health system governance. |
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How Britain Loves the NHS: Practices of Care and Contestation |
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Ellen A Stewart/ 9781447368878/ Price:GBP 24.99
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It is often claimed that the UK population is unusually attached to its National Health Service and the last decade has seen increasingly visible displays of gratitude and love. Whilst social surveys of public attitudes measure how much Britain loves the NHS, this book mobilises new empirical research to ask how Britain love its NHS.
The answer delves into a series of public practices ¡V such as campaigning, donating and volunteering within NHS organisations ¡V and investigates how attitudes to the NHS shape patient experience of healthcare. Stewart argues that these should be understood as practices of care for, and contestation about the future of, the healthcare system.
This book offers a timely critique of both the potential, and the dysfunctions, of Britain¡¦s complex love affair with the NHS.
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Health in a Post-COVID World: Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism |
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Sebastian Taylor/ 9781447368373/ Price:GBP 22.99
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What part do the values of growth and prosperity, freedom and justice, security and democracy play in social policy and human welfare? How can we judge the policies offered to us as the recipe for progress?
At a time of global ¡¥permacrisis¡¦, Sebastian Taylor applies his extensive frontline experience working with health systems and healthcare in the Global North and South to assess the concrete impact of contemporary liberal values on our welfare, development and environmental survival.
Drawing on research from around the world, he uses health as an objective metric to assess how effective these policies are for individuals and society as a whole. |
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Health in a Post-COVID World: Lessons from the Crisis of Western Liberalism |
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Sebastian Taylor/ 9781447368366/ Price:GBP 85.00
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Unpaid Care Policies in the UK: Rights, Resources and Relationships |
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Liz Lloyd/ 9781447361299/ Price:GBP 85.99
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This book examines policies on unpaid care throughout the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. It questions why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more broadly, as demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It provides critical analysis of key policies and professional practice over three decades and highlights the continuing challenges faced by people in caring relationships, as well as reflecting on developments in the position of unpaid carers in the system of social care.
By questioning why this crucially important sphere of human life remains under-resourced, it sheds light on the ways in which care is understood and how policy makers and service providers perceive the need for support. |
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Managing Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Policies, Narratives and Practices |
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Andy Alaszewski/ 9781447365242/ Price:GBP 85.99
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The past 30 years have seen risk become a major field of study, most recently with the COVID-19 pandemic positioning it at the centre of public awareness, yet there is limited understanding of how risk can and should be used in policy making.
This book provides an accessible guide to the key elements of risk in policy making, including its role in rhetoric to legitimise decisions and choices.
Using risk as a framework, it examines how policy makers in a range of countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and explains why some were more successful than others. |
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Overwhelmed: A Tale of Cascading Viral Outbreaks |
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Jon Abramson/ 9789811238581/ Price:US$ 28.00
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Informatics and Technology in Clinical Care and Public Health |
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John Mantas/ 9781643682501/ Price:EUR 131.00
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Data, informatics, and technology are now among the most important aspects inspiring health professionals and informaticians to improve healthcare for the benefit of patients.
This book presents the proceedings of the 19th annual International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH 2021), held as a virtual event due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on 16 and 17 October 2021 in Athens, Greece. The ICIMTH conferences are a series of scientific events which bring together scientists working in the field of biomedical and health informatics from around the world. The 2021 conference examined the field of biomedical and health informatics in a very broad framework, presenting the research and application outcomes of informatics from cell to populations, and including a number of technologies such as imaging, sensors and biomedical equipment, as well as management and organizational aspects, including legal and social issues and the setting of research priorities in health informatics. A significant number of the papers included here relate to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine: Assessment and Management. |
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Kirk Anderson/ 9781639274505/ Price:US$ 161.00
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Digital Professionalism in Health and Care: Developing the Workforce, Building the Future Proceedings of the EFMI Special Topic Conference 2022 |
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Scott, P./ 9781643683102/ Price:EUR 95.00
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Digital technology has become integral in the fields of health and care, and a number of recent reports have stressed the importance of equipping health and care staff with the skills and knowledge they need to use such technology effectively. Numerous failures of digital projects in the health and care sectors have demonstrated that simply relocating IT generalists into these specialist fields is not a guaranteed formula for success; the unique complexities of the typically under-resourced legacy infrastructures of health and care create challenges that demand specific education and training.
This book presents the proceedings of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) 2022 Special Topic Conference (STC), held in Cardiff, Wales, on 7-8 September 2022. The theme of STC 2022 was Digital Professionalism in Health and Care: Developing the Workforce, Building the Future, which emphasized the vital need for professional education, training and continuing development of the health and care informatics workforce. The 30 full papers and 5 posters in this book cover a broad range of topics and methods in informatics education and training, and include a small selection from the wider sub-domains of biomedical informatics.
Providing a valuable overview of current methods and training, the book will be of interest to a wide range of professionals working in healthcare today, especially those involved in equipping the workforce with the skills they will need for the digital future. |
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Indoor Air Quality Assessment for Smart Environments |
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Jagriti Saini/ 9781643682761/ Price:EUR 86.00
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This book, Indoor Air Quality Assessment for Smart Environments, explores the problem of IAQ and highlights potential challenges, gaps, and opportunities in the field. As the title suggests, it focuses on assessing IAQ in smart environments using emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), that can further contribute to the development of intelligent building management systems. The book contains 8 chapters, written by various experts in the field and addressing significant elements of IAQ management, including: definition, state-of-the-art and applications; sensing techniques; technological interventions and smart environments; smart monitoring devices; green and smart hospitals; health risks of nano building products; the optimization of household ventilation; and an assessment of smart environments. |
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Conduct Hazard Analysis |
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3G Editorial Board/ 9781984658654/ Price:US$ 85.00
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Introduces you to job hazard analyses and explain how to conduct them properly.
Develop a basic understanding of the requirements for a Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) and the techniques used to conduct such an analysis.
Includes hazard identification, consequence analysis and hazard evaluation, risk analysis, and development of recommendations; identify and apply procedural requirements to potential job-related safety hazards; and use critical thinking to compare requirements to actual documented hazards. |
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Physical Examination and Health Assessment (Book with DVD) |
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3G Editorial Board/ 9781984659248/ Price:US$ 95.00
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This third edition has been significantly expanded and updated, presenting new topics and updating coverage of other topics.
A comprehensive guide that provides all the information necessary to conduct a holistic health assessment across the life span.
The edition is revised and updated with the latest information and new chapters are added. |
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The Biology of Water |
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Shivsanjeevi Sriipathi/ 9781774690451/ Price:US$ 160.00
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We have been told to "drink lots of water" whether in health or illness. This precious and essential nutrient of life that forms the basis of the majority of metabolic reactions within this body is being shown by research to emerge as a 'healer' of diseases. This book is one of the first to show the biological aspects of water in a concise manner backed by scientific research. "How much water should we have?"-reading this book can offer insights as to the "dynamic complexity" of the homeostasis of water in the human body to guide what is the recommended intake for regular and pregnant individuals. Research has also been presented as to how water can influence our cognition and mood positively. |
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Medical Doctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England and Canada |
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Jean-Louis Denis/ 9781447352150/ Price:GBP 80.00
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This timely comparative study assesses the role of medical doctors in reforming publicly-funded health services in England and Canada.
Respected authors from health and legal backgrounds from both sides of the Atlantic consider how the high status of the profession uniquely influences reforms. With summaries of developments in models of care and the participation of doctors since the inception of publicly-funded healthcare systems, they ask whether professionals might be considered allies or enemies of policymakers.
With insights for future health policy and research, the book is an important contribution to debates about the complex relationship between doctors and the systems in which they practice. |
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Handbook of Research on Key Dimensions of Occupational Safety and Health Protection Management |
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Snezana Zivkovic/ 9781799881896/ Price:US$ 325.00
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Much remains to be known about occupational safety and health, occupational diseases, legislation, practices, and cases worldwide, as well as the implications for sustainable development in different countries in pandemic crisis conditions. Thus, a better understanding of the different safety and health management developments across different contexts to assess their impact on sustainability is needed.
The Handbook of Research on Key Dimensions of Occupational Safety and Health Protection Management discusses the necessity to protect the workforce and the importance of occupational safety and health management. This book will encourage organizations to create a preventative safety and health culture. Covering topics such as economic development, employment injury insurance, and personnel security, this book is an excellent resource for managers of public and private organizations, executives, professionals, researchers, policymakers, human resource managers, government authorities, professionals, students, and academicians.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBusiness Continuity Planning
¡ECircular Economy
¡ECOVID-19 Pandemic
¡EEconomic Development
¡EEconomic Performance
¡EEmployee Efficiency
¡EEmployee Retention
¡EEmployee Wellbeing
¡EEmployment Injury Insurance
¡EHealth Security
¡EHuman Potential
¡EInnovative Dualism
¡EJob Conditions
¡EManaging Occupational Safety
¡EOccupational Safety
¡EOHS Management
¡EOrganizational Safety Management
¡EPersonnel Security
¡EPopulation Health
¡EProfessional Satisfaction
¡EProtection
¡ERemote Work
¡ESustainable Development
¡ESustainable Leadership Practices
¡EWelfare Policies
¡EWorkforce Health |
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Historical and Epidemiological Analyses on the Impact of Infectious Disease on Society |
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Edward Greenberg/ 9781799886891/ Price:US$ 325.00
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Infectious diseases have been a threat since the beginning of civilization, leading the world to constantly adapt and advance medical knowledge in order to survive. The way society responds to these diseases has changed significantly throughout the years due to an influx of new technology, information, and research. In order to ensure society is equipped to handle future battles with infectious diseases, it is essential to understand past outbreaks and how they were handled.
Historical and Epidemiological Analyses on the Impact of Infectious Disease on Society considers the history of infectious disease from the dawn of man to the present and discusses the scope and impact they have had on society and humanity. This book also examines how nation-state conflicts have interwoven with microscopic conflicts. Covering a range of critical topics such as plague, lethality, and technology, this reference work is ideal for medical professionals, historians, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBioterrorism
¡EHuman Society
¡EInfectious Disease Agents
¡ELethality
¡EPlague
¡EPrescriptions
¡ESocietal Implications
¡ETechnology
¡EViruses
¡EVulnerable Populations
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Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice: Improving Health and Wellbeing |
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Michael Chang/ 9781447358466/ Price:GBP 29.99
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This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisions. Supported by examples of policy and approaches, it focuses on implementation and delivery, and sets out what is needed to achieve healthier environments within the parameters of legislative and policy frameworks.
It demonstrates how when we harness the art and science of public health spatial planning, can we begin to effect changes to the policies and decisions that shape population health. |
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Women in Supramolecular Chemistry: Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM |
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Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer Hiscock/ 9781447362371/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Drawing on research carried out by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network, this essential book sets out the extent to which women working in STEM face inequality and discrimination. The authors use approaches more commonly associated with social sciences, such as creative and reflective research methods, to shed light on the human experiences lying behind scientific research. They share fictional vignettes drawn from research findings to illustrate the challenges faced by women working in science today. Additionally, they show how this approach helps make sense of difficult personal experiences and to create a culture of change. |
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Health Communication Models and Practices in Interpersonal and Media Contexts: Emerging Research and Opportunities |
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Celia Belim/ 9781799843962/ Price:US$ 315.00
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Successful communication can help to prevent health problems, promote healthy behaviors and lifestyles, and overcome health challenges. However, various issues have created obstacles for the promotion of health communication, including low health literacy, the reluctance of patients to admit their lack of understanding, the overestimation by health professionals of a patient¡¦s level of understanding, and insufficient health literacy tools, to name a few. It is thus essential to convey the latest communication models and practices being used to increase health literacy and provide adequate health information to society.
Health Communication Models and Practices in Interpersonal and Media Contexts: Emerging Research and Opportunities explores and analyzes the fundamentals, models, and dimensions of health communication and offers practical solutions for better communications with direct outcomes in the optimization of citizens¡¦ health literacy. The book also discusses and proposes more effective health communication models and practices as a tool for the construction of more solid and evident health outcomes. Covering topics such as cancer prevention, health professionals¡¦ communication, and models of health communication, this text is essential for health professionals, communication professionals, professors, teachers, researchers, academicians, and students.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAssertiveness, Clarity, and Positivity Model
¡ECancer Prevention
¡ECardiovascular Health
¡ECommunication Competencies
¡ECommunication Models
¡ECrisis Communication
¡EHealth Advertisements
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EHealth Professionals¡¦ Communication
¡EInternational Media Campaigns
¡EPatient Communication |
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Research Anthology on Improving Health Literacy Through Patient Communication and Mass Media |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781668424148/ Price:US$ 765.00
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The Research Anthology on Improving Health Literacy Through Patient Communication and Mass Media provides an overview of the importance of health literacy and the various means to achieve health literacy for patients using several strategies and elements such as patient communication and mass media. The book covers health awareness challenges that have been faced recently and historically and pushes for better patient-provider communication. The book also examines the use of social media, virtual support groups, and technological tools that aid in the facilitation of health knowledge. Covering a range of key topics such as patient safety, health illiteracy, and eHealth, this anthology is crucial for healthcare professionals, researchers, academicians, students, and those interested in understanding the importance of health literacy and how it connects to media and communication.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAccessibility
¡EHealth Disparities
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EMass Media
¡EMedia Influence
¡EMedia Representation
¡EMobile Technologies
¡EPatient Communications
¡EPatient Healthcare Portals
¡EPatient-Centered Care
¡ERisk Communication
¡ESocial Media
¡EVirtual Communities
¡EWearable Technologies |
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pHealth 2022: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health |
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Blobel, B./ 9781643683485/ Price:EUR 133.00
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Personalized health technologies offer many benefits. Smart mobile systems, textiles and implants and sensor-controlled medical devices have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health as the next-generation health services, while social media and gamification have added another dimension to pHealth as an eco-system.
This book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2022, the 19th in the conference series, held as a hybrid event in Oslo, Norway, from 8 ¡V 10 November 2022. The pHealth 2022 conference attracted experts from many scientific domains and brought together health-service vendor and provider institutions, payer organizations, government departments, academic institutions, professional bodies, and patients and citizen representatives. Topics covered include mobile technologies, micro-nano-bio smart systems, bio-data management and analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics for personalized health, the Health Internet of Things (HIoT), systems medicine, public health and virtual care. The book includes 2 keynote papers, 10 invited papers, 20 full papers, and 4 poster papers by 113 authors from 23 countries. All submissions were carefully and critically reviewed by at least two independent experts from a country other than the author¡¦s home country, and additionally by at least one member of the Scientific Program Committee, guaranteeing a high scientific level of the accepted and ultimately published papers.
Exploring the enormous potential of pHealth for improvements in medical quality and also for the management of healthcare costs and the provision of a better patient experience, the book will be of interest to all those involved in the development and provision of healthcare. |
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Contemporary Issues in Global Medicine and Moving Toward International Healthcare Equity |
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Nick Comninellis/ 9781799884903/ Price:US$ 325.00
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The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest prompt about the importance of international health and its broad influence upon social wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for an informed and coordinated effort to achieve international healthcare equity. Leaders in international health must be conversant in its issues.
Contemporary Issues in Global Medicine and Moving Toward International Healthcare Equity provides an understanding of contemporary issues in international medicine. It explores the impact of civil unrest on population health and provides practical strategies for providing clinical care in low resource settings. Covering topics such as international public health, maternal health, and drug resistance, this book is an essential resource for government officials, medical officials, physicians, nurses, social workers, sociologists, epidemiologists, medical students, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EDisabilities
¡EDrug Resistance
¡EInternational Public Health
¡ELow Resource Settings
¡EMaternal Health
¡EMedical Trips
¡ENatural Disasters
¡ENeonatal Care
¡EPharmacists
¡ESmoking Addiction
¡ETrauma Care |
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Research Anthology on Public Health Services, Policies, and Education, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781799889601/ Price:US$ 545.00
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Public health has become an essential area of focus in terms of the way it operates, the services offered, policies, and more. Maintaining an effective public health system and infrastructure, updated and useful policies, and health literacy are primary concerns. A critical analysis of public healthcare policy and services is critical to accommodate the changing health demands of the global population. Through a deeper understanding of the way public health services are offered, a look into policymaking and current policies in healthcare, and the way health literacy and health education are promoted, the current state and future of public health are acknowledged.
The Research Anthology on Public Health Services, Policies, and Education presents a view of public health through an analysis of healthcare services and delivery; policies in terms of policymaking, ethics, and governance; as well as the way society is educated on public health affairs. The chapters will cover a wide range of issues such as healthcare policy, health literacy, healthcare reform, accessibility, public welfare, and more. This book is essential for public health officials, government officials, policymakers, teachers, medical professionals, health agencies and organizations, professionals, researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in the current state of public health and the improvement of public health services and policies for the future.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAccessibility to Healthcare
¡ECommunication
¡EHealth Equity
¡EHealth Ethics
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EHealthcare Delivery
¡EHealthcare Reform
¡EPolicies and Policy Making
¡EPublic Health
¡EPublic Health Education
¡EPublic Health Services
¡EPublic Welfare |
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Transitioning Healthcare Support in Developing Countries From the US to China: Emerging Research and Opportunities |
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Leo Eyombo/ 9781799844501/ Price:US$ 270.00
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Transitioning Healthcare Support in Developing Countries From the US to China: Emerging Research and Opportunities explores the history of healthcare in Africa from the 1960s to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic in 2020. This book examines the relationship between the People¡¦s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA) in providing healthcare services to Africa and documents the struggles and areas of both success and failure in doing so. The chapters cover issues such as racism in PRC residing in Africa and the USA¡¦s struggle with coronavirus. This book is ideal for government officials, medical personnel, policymakers, international agencies, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the relations and healthcare delivery between both the USA and PRC to Africa.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡ECOVID-19
¡EDeveloping Countries
¡EHealthcare Delivery
¡EHealthcare Diplomacy
¡EHealthcare Support
¡EInternational Healthcare Development
¡EInternational Relations
¡EPolitics
¡ERacism
¡ESoft Power Economics and Dynamics |
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Epidemiological Research Applications for Public Health Measurement and Intervention |
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Simon George Taukeni/ 9781799844143/ Price:US$ 325.00
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Different levels in health sciences, in particular public health, have acknowledged the significant role of epidemiology methods for early detection of emerging infections, alert systems, and preparedness interventions. Therefore, it is important to understand how epidemiological research is conducted and how it can be used at various levels to make exposure or incidence data on a general population available. In this, epidemiological research connected to both human and technology interactions is of primary importance.
Epidemiological Research Applications for Public Health Measurement and Intervention provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the field of epidemiology. The chapters within this essential reference source enhance the knowledge of epidemiological research and measurement to investigate, detect, and monitor emerging pathological infections. While highlighting topics that include the history of epidemiology; the applications of epidemiology; and also the uses, principles, and roles of epidemiology, this book is ideally intended for professionals and researchers working in the field of health sciences in various disciplines and government officials, policymakers, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in epidemiological research and measurement for increasing the effectiveness of public health practice.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EChronic Disease
¡EDisease Control
¡EDisease Detection
¡EDisease Surveillance
¡EEnvironmental Health
¡EEpidemiology
¡EEpidemiology History
¡EOutbreak Investigation
¡EPopulation Health Status
¡EPublic Health |
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A Theoretical Analysis, Performance Evaluation, and Reform Solution of the Health Care System in China |
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Sheng Hong/ 9789811227172/ Price:US$ 128.00
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Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction |
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Priscilla Alderson/ 9781447354567/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Critical realism, as a toolkit of practical ideas, helps researchers to extend and clarify their analyses. It resolves problems arising from splits between different research approaches, builds on the strengths of different methods and overcomes their individual limitations.
This original text draws on international examples of health and illness research across the life course, from small studies to large trials, to show how versatile critical realism can be in validating research and connecting it to policy and practice.
To meet growing demand from students and researchers, this book is based on the course at UCL, first taught by Roy Bhaskar, the founder of critical realism. |
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Law, Ethics, & Bioethics for the Health Professions |
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Rosely Mistler/ 9781682507087/ Price:US$ 150.00
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Government¡¦s responsibility to protect and advance the interests of society includes the delivery of high-quality health care. The purpose of healthcare policy and procedures is to provide standardization in daily operational activities. The current book presents a comprehensive review of the most important new legislative regulations in the healthcare system and presents the fundamental consequences for the practice. The book presents a literature review of the existing government machinery for public health needs, its success, limitations and future scope. Health system strengthening, human resource development and capacity building and regulation in public health are important areas within the health sector. |
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Examining and Solving Health Disparities in the United States: Emerging Research and Opportunities |
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Cheryl Green/ 9781799838746/ Price:US$ 295.00
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Examining and Solving Health Disparities in the United States: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical reference book that provides discussion on the topic of inequities in healthcare that impact health disparities and serves to increase awareness on these issues. The author particularly explores health disparities from a unifying perspective that supports the understanding of why health disparities occur and how an increase in the awareness, education, and confrontation of discriminatory acts can help make changes at the organizational and societal levels. Covering topics that include cultural clashes, equity, healthcare delivery, and healthcare accessibility, this book is essential for government officials, policymakers, medical administrators, medical professionals, medical boards and directors, researchers, academicians, and students involved in gender studies, cultural studies, social justice, socioeconomics, ethics and law, government, medicine, public health, psychology, sociology, and more.
Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAccessibility
¡ECultural Clash
¡ECulture and Race
¡EEquity
¡EGrassroots Community Collaboratives
¡EHealth Disparities
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EHealthcare Delivery
¡EHealthcare Systems
¡EHistory of Health Disparity
¡EPsychological Implications |
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Applying the FAIR Principles to Accelerate Health Research in Europe in the post COVID-19 Era Proceedings of the 2021 EFMI Special Topic Conference |
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Delgado, J./ 9781643682365/ Price:EUR 95.00
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This book presents the proceedings of the 2021 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference (STC), originally planned as a live event in Seville, Spain, but ultimately held as a virtual event from 22¡V24 November 2021. This conference focused on applying the FAIR principles (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) to accelerate health research in Europe in the post COVID-19 era. The 38 papers included here are divided into 5 sections, and topics covered include: methods for the adoption of FAIR principles; FAIR-based precision medicine; AI in FAIR data-driven health; privacy and security aspects of applying FAIR in health research; FAIR and infectious-disease research data (including COVID-19); FAIR in infrastructures and software; metadata, ontologies, and terminologies to support the sharing of health research data; and paradigms for sharing health research data. |
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The Allied Health Professions: A Sociological Perspective |
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Susan Nancarrow/ 9781447345367/ Price:GBP 80.00
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The allied health professions have gained legitimacy through the pursuit of research evidence and the standardisation of practice. Yet there remains very little analysis or understanding of these professions.
Adopting theory from the sociology of health professions, this unique text explores the sociological, economic, political and philosophical pressures that have shaped the professions. Drawing on case studies and examples from occupations including optometrists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists to emerging vocations, including pedorthists and allied health assistants, this book offers an innovative comparison of allied health professions in Australia and Britain.
By telling the story of their past, this original book prepares the allied health professions for a new and different future. |
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The NHS and Contemporary Health Challenges From a Multilevel Perspective |
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Louise Dalingwater/ 9781799839286/ Price:US$ 295.00
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The National Health Service, or NHS, is the United Kingdom¡¦s national healthcare system. It oversees the public¡¦s health and ensures the medical wellbeing of the population of the UK. Governance network processes are complex because of the different nature of agendas and strategies of actors involved in health, but increasingly, because of the link between social and healthcare delivery, recent initiatives to provide a joined up or integrated approach have been presented. However, the extent of joined-up governance processes in the National Health Service is rather uneven. So far, reforms to try to improve the running of the NHS through the introduction of market mechanisms or increased decentralization have only served to exacerbate such tensions and resulted in further fragmentation of the public health system.
The NHS and Contemporary Health Challenges From a Multilevel Perspective illustrates the complexities of governing public health services that are part of the NHS and takes an innovative approach by examining public health provision through a multiscalar lens, which reveals significant limits of the current governance model. The book raises the various challenges that clinical staff, public authorities, and the general public face in the provision of healthcare to uphold core values inherent in health systems. While highlighting topics including health governance, patient satisfaction, and public health, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, government officials, healthcare administrators, hospital managers, healthcare researchers, medical professionals, and students.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EContinuing Healthcare
¡EFunding Crisis
¡EGlobal Governance
¡EHealth and Social Care Integration
¡EHealth Policy
¡EInequities
¡EIntegrated Models of Care
¡ENew Public Management (NPM)
¡EPerson-Centered Care
¡EPrivatization
¡ERationing of Healthcare |
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Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment |
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Mika Mervio/ 9781799835769/ Price:US$ 215.00
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Despite the development of environmental initiatives, healthcare, and cultural assimilation in today¡¦s global market, significant problems in these areas remain throughout various regions of the world. As countries continue to transition into the modern age, areas across Asia and Africa have begun implementing modern solutions in order to benefit their individual societies and keep pace with the surrounding world. Significant research is needed in order to understand current issues that persist across the globe and what is being done to solve them.
Global Issues and Innovative Solutions in Healthcare, Culture, and the Environment is an essential reference source that discusses worldwide conflicts within healthcare and environmental development as well as modern resolutions that are being implemented. Featuring research on topics such as health insurance reform, sanitation development, and cultural freedom, this book is ideally designed for researchers, policymakers, physicians, government officials, sociologists, environmentalists, anthropologists, academicians, practitioners, and students seeking coverage on global societal challenges in the modern age.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EChild Care
¡ECultural Freedom
¡EEnvironmental Policies
¡EFood Safety
¡EGreen Alternatives
¡EHealth Insurance Reform
¡EMedicaid Expansion
¡ESanitation Development
¡ESustainability
¡EWomen¡¦s Rights |
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Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Health in Tropical and Subtropical Regions |
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Ahmed Karmaoui/ 9781799821977/ Price:US$ 250.00
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Climate change and environmental pollution remain two primary areas of concern in today¡¦s world. These detrimental influences continue to have a strong impact on various aspects of humanity, specifically public health in tropical regions. Researchers have seen neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) affected by climate change and anthropogenic impacts.
Climate Change and Anthropogenic Impacts on Health in Tropical and Subtropical Regions is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the association of environmental pollutants and global warming with viruses in tropical regions. While highlighting topics such as pathogenicity, travel impact, and economic impacts, this publication explores the developments and trends in these areas of medicine and ecology, as well as prevention strategies to be used for educational and sensitization purposes. This book is ideally designed for doctors, medical practitioners, ecologists, epidemiologists, environmentalists, world health organizations, researchers, biologists, policymakers, academicians, and students.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EBiomedical Research
¡EDisease Ecology
¡EDisease Treatment
¡EEconomic Effects
¡EEndemicity
¡EPathogenicity
¡EPublic Health
¡ESanitation and Hygiene
¡ESocial Effects
¡ETravel Impact |
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Remote and Rural Dementia Care: Policy, Research and Practice |
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Anthea Innes/ 9781447344957/ Price:GBP 79.99
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As the number of people affected by dementia continues to rise, this is the first in-depth examination of related services dedicated to the unique demands of remote and rural settings.
Contributors from the UK, Australia, North America and Europe explore the experiences and requirements of those living with dementia and those caring for them in personal and professional capacities in challenging geographical locations. For practitioners, researchers, academics and policy makers, this book is an essential review of evidence and strategies to date, and a guide to future research needs and opportunities for improvements in rural dementia practice. |
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Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health |
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Adrian Bonner/ 9781447356240/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Health and social and public policy experts review structural changes in provision and procurement, and explore social determinants of health including intergenerational needs and housing. With detailed assessments of regional disparities and case studies of effective strategies and interventions from local authorities, this collaborative study addresses complex issues (Wicked Issues), considers where responsibility for wellbeing lies and points the way to future policy-making. |
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Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care |
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Mike Saks/ 9781447352105/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as modern governments strive to combat illness in a world of finite resources.
This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Canada. Leading academics examine issues including the interface of HSWs with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs. |
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Non-Binary Genders: Navigating Communities, Identities, and Healthcare |
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Ben Vincent/ 9781447351924/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people¡¦s identities and experiences in the UK.
From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when ¡¥not feeling trans enough¡¦ to how identities can shift over time, it reveals important nuances of diverse gender identities, whilst offering crucial insights into trans-related healthcare inequalities.
The findings of this ground-breaking research mark an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy. |
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Commissioning Healthcare in England: Evidence, Policy and Practice |
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Pauline Allen/ 9781447346135/ Price:GBP 29.99
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This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.
Drawing on eight years of research, expert researchers in the field analyse crucial aspects of commissioning, including competition and cooperation, the development of Clinical Commissioning Groups and contractual mechanisms. They also consider the influence of recent commissioning reforms on public health infrastructure.
For academics and policy makers in health services research and policy, this is a valuable collection of evidence that deepens understanding of how commissioning works. |
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Embedding Young People's Participation in Health Services: New Approaches |
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Louca-Mai Brady/ 9781447351207/ Price:GBP 24.99
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There is increasing interest in young people¡¦s participation in the design and delivery of health services. But young people¡¦s views are not consistently sought or acknowledged, and they are still often marginalised in healthcare encounters.
Drawing on original research and a diverse range of practice examples, Brady explores the potential for inclusive and diverse approaches to young people¡¦s participation in health services from the perspectives of young people, health professionals and other practitioners. |
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Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases: Case Studies from Japan. |
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Katsunori Kondo/ 9789811518300/ Price:EUR 49.99
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Control of Communicable Diseases: Clinical Practice |
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Omar A. Khan/ 9780875533070/ Price:US$ 79.00
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2-Vols/Set. |
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The Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health is an authoritative source on public health issues. Topics focus on health crises affecting the public at large, ranging from epidemic (local) and pandemic (widespread) diseases (H1N1, Malaria, food-borne illnesses, West Nile etc.); chronic conditions such as famine, malnutrition, cancer and diabetes; and social issues such as sexual abuse, obesity, bullying and new substance abuse issues, plus much more. Entries describe the origin and spread of the issue, public and government reaction and response, and treatments and preventive measures. Entries also include resources for further information, full-color illustrations and photographs, statistical tables, and Key Terms sidebars; the book also provides contact information for organizations and government programs, a glossary, cross references, and an index. |
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The Importance of Health Informatics in Public Health during a Pandemic |
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Mantas, J./ 9781643680927/ Price:EUR 131.00
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This book contains the 110 papers (from 160 submissions) accepted for the 18th annual International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare (ICIMTH 2020), held virtually in Athens, Greece, from 3 ¡V 5 July 2020. The conference attracts scientists working in the field of Biomedical and Health Informatics from all continents, and this year it was held as a Virtual Conference, by means of teleconferencing, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent lockdown in many countries around the world.
The call for papers for the conference started in December 2019, when signs of the new virus infection were not yet evident, so early submissions were on the usual topics as announced. But papers submitted after mid-March were mostly focused on the first results of the pandemic analysis with respect to informatics in different countries and with different perspectives of the spread of the virus and its influence on public health across the world. This book therefore includes papers on the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to informatics reporting from hospitals and institutions from around the world, including South Korea, Europe, and the USA.
The book encompasses the field of biomedical and health informatics in a very broad framework, and the timely inclusion of papers on the current pandemic will make it of particular interest to all those involved in the provision of healthcare everywhere. |
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Health Literacy in Clinical Practice and Public Health: New Initiatives and Lessons Learned at the Intersection with other Disciplines |
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Logan, R.A./ 9781643680743/ Price:EUR 160.00
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Two years ago, HTI published the book Health Literacy: New Directions in Research, Theory and Practice. Together with that earlier volume, this book: Health Literacy in Clinical Practice and Public Health: New Initiatives and Lessons Learned at the Intersection with other Disciplines, strives to enumerate and expand our understanding of the multidisciplinary connections which underpin the field of health literacy. The book¡¦s balance between research and practice is a response to the feedback the editors received about the previous publication, which focused more on HL theory and research.
With reports of specific health literacy research initiatives and interventions, particularly in clinical practice and public health, the book covers contemporary health literacy research and practice and is divided into three sections. Section one explores health literacy¡¦s capacity to foster progress in clinical practice and public health; section two provides insights into health literacy initiatives and lessons learned from diverse healthcare stakeholders; and section three examines health literacy¡¦s similarities with ¡V and differences from ¡V related health research disciplines.
The book sets the practice and research of health literacy on an evidence-based, thoughtful, effective, efficient, and applied course. As Dr Richard Carmona says in his foreword: ¡§It is enthusiastically recommended for all health and medical practitioners and researchers." |
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Integrated Citizen Centered Digital Health and Social Care: Citizens as Data Producers and Service co-Creators |
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Varri, A./ 9781643681443/ Price:EUR 95.00
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This topic provided the opportunity for contributors to present innovative solutions to allow citizens to take greater responsibility for their health with the help of information and communication technology, and the 52 presented papers published here cover a wide range of areas under the broad, invited subject headings of: tools and technologies to support citizen-centered digital services; capacity building to enhance the development and use of digital services; confidentiality, data integrity and data protection to guarantee trustworthy services; citizen safety in digital services; effectiveness and impact of citizen-digital and integrated health and social services; evaluation approaches and methods for digital services; usability, usefulness and user acceptance of digital services; and guidelines for the successful implementation of digital services for citizens.
Offering a current overview of research and applications, the book will be of interest to all those health professionals working to increase citizen use of digital healthcare. |
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Health Information Management: Empowering Public Health |
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Mantas, J./ 9781643681269/ Price:EUR 95.00
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The effective and efficient management of healthcare institutions is key to the successful development of national health systems. In an increasingly digital society, the skills involved in health information management become a primary factor in ensuring this development. Employment is projected to grow in all areas of healthcare, but especially in those related to information management, such as applied informatics, public health informatics and medical informatics.
This book, Health Information Management: Empowering Public Health, aims to provide a clear and comprehensive introduction to the study and development of health information management. It is designed for use by university and vocational courses to train allied health professionals. It can also be used as an in-service training tool for new healthcare-facility personnel, for those working in government healthcare institutions, independent billing and health assurance services, or individually by health information specialists. The book describes health information management, and explains how it merges the fields of health care and information technology. Readers will learn logical thinking and communication, and will be introduced to the organizational processes in healthcare institutions, as well as finding out how to organize and analyze health care data; accurately record, store and assess health data; use an electronic patient record system; and provide statistical analysis and interpret the results. |
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pHealth 2020 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health |
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Blobel, B./ 9781643681122/ Price:EUR 108.00
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Smart mobile systems such as microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, and sensor-controlled medical devices, together with their related networks, have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health to become next-generation health services.
This book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2020, held as a virtual conference from 14 ¡V 16 September 2020. This is the 17th in a series of international conferences on wearable or implantable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine, which bring together expertise from medical, technological, political, administrative, and social domains, and cover subjects including technological and biomedical facilities, legal, ethical, social, and organizational requirements and impacts, and the research necessary to enable future-proof care paradigms. The 2020 conference also covers AI and robots in healthcare; bio-data management and analytics for personalized health; security, privacy and safety challenges; integrated care; and the intelligent management of specific diseases including the Covid-19 pandemic. Communication and cooperation with national and regional health authorities and the challenges facing health systems in developing countries were also addressed. The book includes 1 keynote, 5 invited talks, 25 oral presentations, and 8 short poster presentations from 99 international authors. All submissions were carefully and critically reviewed by at least two independent experts and at least one member of the Scientific Program Committee; a highly selective review process resulting in a full-paper rejection rate of 36%. |
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Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges |
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Paraskevi Papadopoulou/ 9781522576358/ Price:US$ 255.00
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Environmental health is an area with significant developments and noteworthy challenges that expand into various disciplines: medicine and public health, sociology and communications, technology, policymaking, and legislation. Due to the massive amount of health-related issues, additional literature involving environmental health is required to improve the wellbeing of citizens worldwide.
Environmental Exposures and Human Health Challenges provides interdisciplinary insights into concepts and theories related to environmental exposures and human health impacts via the air, water, soil, heavy metal exposure, and other chemical toxins. The book also addresses inequalities and environmental injustices in relation to environmental exposures and health impacts. Covering topics such as health policies, pollution effects, and heavy metal exposure, this publication is designed for public health professionals, preventive medicine specialists, clinicians, data scientists, environmentalists, academicians, practitioners, researchers, and students.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡ECitizen Empowerment
¡EEnvironmental Justice
¡EEthics
¡EFood Safety
¡EFood Systems
¡EGMOs
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EHealth Policies
¡EHeavy Metal Exposure
¡EOccupational Epidemiology
¡EPesticide Health Concerns
¡EPollution Effects
¡ESocial Inequalities
¡ESustainability |
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Global Applications of One Health Practice and Care |
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Sandul Yasobant/ 9781522563044/ Price:US$ 245.00
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Many factors have changed interactions between people, animals, and our environment including the emergence and reemergence of diseases such as swine flu, rabies, and diphtheria. By practicing the concept of one health, which relates the close interactions between people, animals, and our environment to overall health, a solution for global wellbeing can be found.
Global Applications of One Health Practice and Care provides in-depth research on the concept of one health and the ability to achieve universal health by connecting human health with animal health and a safe environment. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as holism health, drug resistance, and parasitic zoonoses, this book is ideally designed for policy planners, program managers, public health practitioners, animal health specialists, environmentalists, researchers, and academicians seeking current research on achieving better public health outcomes.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAntimicrobial Resistance
¡EDrug Resistance
¡EHolism Health
¡EHuman Factors
¡ENon-Human Life
¡EParasitic Zoonoses
¡EQ Fever
¡ERisk Communication
¡EVeterinary Public Health
¡EZoonotic Diseases |
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Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy |
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Augustine Nduka Eneanya/ 9781522561330/ Price:US$ 225.00
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The legitimacy of any national health system depends on how it serves the interest of the poorest and most vulnerable people. As such, a commitment to equity should be at the heart of human rights discussions regarding universal health coverage.
Human Rights, Public Values, and Leadership in Healthcare Policy is an essential reference source on the importance of access to timely, quality, and affordable healthcare, and how overt or implicit discrimination in the delivery of health services violates fundamental human rights and can have serious health consequences. This publication covers current health-policy debates and reforms that focus on extending universal health coverage, decreasing the growth of costs through improved efficiency, and expanding prevention and wellness of programs. While highlighting topics such as authority hierarchy, HIV/AIDS experiences, and veterans¡¦ mental health, this publication is ideally designed for health practitioners/professionals, scholars, researchers, institutions, students, consultants, and policymakers.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EAuthority Hierarchy
¡EClinical Psychology
¡EFinancing
¡EGlobal Health Governance
¡EHealthcare Comparisons
¡EHIV/AIDS Experiences
¡ELocal Government Responsibilities
¡ESocial Organizations
¡EStrategic Development Goals
¡EUniversal Healthcare
¡EVeterans¡¦ Mental Health |
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Healthcare Policy and Reform: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Information Resources Management Association/ 9781522569152/ Price:US$ 1095.00
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Industry professionals, government officials, and the general public often agree that the modern healthcare system is in need of an overhaul. With many organizations concerned with the long-term care of patients, new strategies, practices, and organizational tools must be developed to optimize the current healthcare system.
Healthcare Policy and Reform: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive source of academic material on the importance of policy and policy reform initiatives in modern healthcare systems. Highlighting a range of topics such as public health, effective care delivery, and health information systems, this multi-volume book is designed for medical practitioners, medical administrators, professionals, academicians, and researchers interested in all aspects of healthcare policy and reform.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡EDecision Management
¡EEffective Care Delivery
¡EHealth Ethics
¡EHealth Information Systems
¡EHealth Literacy
¡EHealthcare Management
¡EPatient Engagement
¡EPatient-Practitioner Relationships
¡EPublic Health |
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International Handbook of Health Literacy: Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span |
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Orkan Okan/ 9781447344513/ Price:GBP 159.99
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Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health including knowledge, navigation, communication as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using of information. Especially over the past decade, health literacy has become a major public health concern globally as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.
This comprehensive handbook provides an invaluable overview of current international thinking about health literacy, highlighting cutting edge research, policy and practice in the field. With a diverse team of contributors, the book addresses health literacy across the life-span and offers insights from different populations and settings. Providing a wide range of major findings, the book outlines current discourse in the field and examines necessary future dialogues and new perspectives. |
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Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices |
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Vassilios E. Papalois/ 9781522540748/ Price:US$ 235.00
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Scientific evidence from different countries around the globe shows that those with low or inadequate health-related knowledge and skills include all ages, social, and economic backgrounds. The consequences of this inadequacy simultaneously affect individuals, healthcare systems, and society in many ways, such as healthcare quality and cost. Research on health literacy can provide insight on how to improve the communication of health issues, raise awareness, and promote the lifelong learning of patients and healthcare professionals.
Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices examines the latest advances in providing and helping patients and medical professionals to understand basic health information and the services that are most appropriate. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as patient engagement, mobile health, and health communication, this book is geared towards medical professionals, hospital adminstrators, healthcare providers, academicians, and researchers in the field.
Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
¡ECare Management
¡EChronic Disease
¡EDigital Literacy
¡EElectronic Health
¡EHealth Communication
¡EMobile Health
¡EPatient Education
¡EPatient Engagement
¡EPatient-Reported Outcomes Measurement
¡EUrban Health |
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Wie Schreibe Ich Eine Doktorarbeit? : Leitfaden Fur Medizin Und Zahnmedizin |
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Barbara Budrich/ 9783662567852/ Price:EUR 21.49
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Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility |
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Ruth Pearce/ 9781447342359/ Price:GBP 28.99
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What does it mean for someone to be ¡¥trans¡¦? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision?
Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography, offering an innovative look at how shifting language, patient mistrust, waiting lists and professional power shape clinical encounters, and exploring what a better future might look like for trans patients. |
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Nanotechnology and Human Health. |
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Shiv Sanjeevi/ 9781773611884/ Price:US$ 165.00
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Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility |
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Ruth Pearce/ 9781447342335/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Repealing the 8th: Reforming Irish Abortion Law |
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Fiona de Londras/ 9781447347514/ Price:GBP 14.99
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Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has recognised the ¡§unborn¡¨ as having a right to life equal to that of the ¡§mother¡¨. Consequently, most people in Ireland who wish to bring their pregnancies to an end either import the abortion pill illegally, travel abroad to access abortion, or continue with the pregnancy against their will.
Now, however, there are signs of change. A constitutional referendum will be held in 2018, after which it will be possible to reimagine, redesign, and reform the law on abortion. Written by experts in the field, this book draws on experience from other countries, as well as experiences of maternal medical care in Ireland, to call for a feminist, woman-centered, and rights-based radical new approach to abortion law in Ireland.
Directly challenging grounds-based abortion law, this accessible guide brings together feminist analysis, comparative research, human rights law, and political awareness to propose a new constitutional and legislative settlement on reproductive autonomy in Ireland. It offers practical proposals for policymakers and advocates, including model legislation, making it an essential campaigning tool leading up to the referendum. |
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Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation in Digital Health Selected Papers from Global Telehealth 2018 |
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Ginige, J.A./ 9781614999133/ Price:EUR 90.00
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The term Telehealth covers a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from the enabling of direct clinical interventions to patient-centered care needs such as personal monitoring and care team support, as well as education, policy and professional aspects. Contributing to the solving of healthcare sustainability challenges and supporting the development and delivery of a wide range of innovative care and treatment models, Telehealth also acts as a major driver for change in global health issues.
This book, Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation in Digital Health, presents the accepted full-paper, double-blinded, peer-reviewed contributions, as well as the editor-reviewed invited keynote papers, delivered at the 7th International Conference on Global Telehealth (GT2018), held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 10 and 11 October 2018. Approximately 50% of the total initial submissions were accepted. The conference provided a platform for the sharing of best practice and research directions across the international Telehealth community, and the 14 papers presented here deal with a variety of themes ranging from data collection and analysis to the design of interventions and delivery mechanisms, in situations from public health and primary care through to consumer health informatics, and from implementation and algorithm design to privacy and ethical considerations.
Offering an overview of the innovation and diversity of today¡¦s Telehealth domain, this book will be of interest to all those involved in the design and implementation of healthcare solutions. |
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Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 3-Vols/Set. |
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Information Resources Management Association (USA)/ 9781522516743/ Price:US$ 795.00
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The prevention and treatment of diseases is a primary concern for any nation in modern society. To maintain an effective public health system, procedures and infrastructure must be analyzed and enhanced accordingly.
Public Health and Welfare: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research perspectives on public health initiatives and promotion efforts. Highlighting critical analyses and emerging innovations on an international scale, this book is a pivotal reference source for professionals, researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in the improvement of public health infrastructures.
Topics Covered
¡EAntibiotic Resistance
¡EDisease Control
¡EHealth Ethics
¡ENutrition and Exercise
¡EPublic Health Funding
¡EPublic Health Legislation
¡EVaccinations
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Examining the Role of Environmental Change on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics |
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Bouzid, Maha/ 9781522505532/ Price:US$ 200.00
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Climate change is one of the most widely debated and worrisome topics of our time. As environmental changes become more prevalent, there has been evidence to suggest that there is a correlation between the environment and a substantial increase of infectious diseases and viruses around the globe.
Examining the Role of Environmental Change on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics investigates the impact of climate change in relation to the emergence and spread of global diseases. Highlighting epidemiological factors and policies to govern epidemics and pandemics, this publication is a critical reference source for medical professionals, students, environmental scientists, advocates, policy makers, academics, and researchers.
Topics Covered
¡EClimate Change
¡EEbola
¡EEnvironmental Policy
¡EGlobal Epidemics
¡EPublic Health
¡EVector-Borne Disease
¡EWater-Borne Disease |
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Public Health, 4-Vols/Set |
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Heginbotham, Chris/ 9781473925045/ Price:GBP 710.00
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Public Health is a vast academic field covering a wide spectrum of disciplines from specific public health courses for those specialising in public health careers / research, to qualifying and post-qualifying training for nurses, doctors and other health professionals.
Taking a thematic approach, this four volume collection presents the essential articles on:
Theories and policies in public health
Epidemiology
Environmental public health
Ecological and systems approaches
International contexts
The Major Work takes a comparative approach, looking both historically and internationally at this very important subject area.
Volume One: Global Public Health And Theoretical Foundations Of Public Health And Health Inequalities
Volume Two: Epidemiology
Volume Three: Ecological Public Health, Case Studies And Evaluation
Volume Four: Public Health, Climate Change And Conflict |
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Management Im Gesundheitswesen: Das Lehrbuch Fur Studium Und Praxis |
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Reinhard Busse/ 9783662550236/ Price:EUR 60.74
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Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Flashcards. |
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Kenneth D. Somers/ 9781259859823/ Price:US$ 55.00
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Healthcare in Transition: Understanding Key Ideas and Tensions in Contemporary Health Policy. |
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Cribb, Alan/ 9781447323228/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Health policy thinking must change. This book explores the fundamental currents and tensions that lie behind recent trends such as shared decision-making, co-production, and personalisation.
These are often discussed in relation to an epidemiological transition but this text argues that they embody a philosophical transition ¡V a change in our conceptions of healthcare and of appropriate forms of knowledge and analysis. As clinical concerns are increasingly nested within social concerns then policy analysis must engage with the multiple philosophical tensions that are now centre stage.
This focus on key underlying ideas and tensions in healthcare couldn¡¦t have come at a better time. With international relevance, the book¡¦s arguments help fuel a shift away from a ¡¥delivery¡¦ model towards a more deliberative model of healthcare. |
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Healthcare in Transition: Understanding Key Ideas and Tensions in Contemporary Health Policy |
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Alan Cribb/ 9781447323211/ Price:GBP 79.99
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pHealth 2017: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health |
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B. Blobel/ 9781614997603/ Price:EUR 105.00
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This book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2017, the 14th in a series of international conferences for personalized health held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in May 2017. The conference series, which began in 2003 as a dissemination activity in the framework of a European project on wearable micro and nano technologies for personalized health, presents advances in wearable or implantable micro-, nano- and bio-technologies for healthcare and wellness, and brings together expertise from medical, technological, political, administrative, and social domains, and even from philosophy and linguistics. The book contains keynotes and invited papers, as well as 16 oral presentations and 8 poster presentations.
Encompassing diverse fields such as medical services, public health, prevention, social and elderly care, wellness and personal fitness, the book will be of interest to practitioners from various medical and health disciplines, as well as developers and administrators, provider institutions, and patient and citizens representatives. |
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Health Informatics Meets eHealth: Digital Insight - Information-Driven Health & Care. Proceedings of the 11th eHealth2017 Conference |
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D. Hayn/ 9781614997580/ Price:EUR 130.00
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This book presents the proceedings of the annual Health Informatics meets eHealth conference, held in Vienna, Austria, in May 2017. The special topic chosen for eHealth2017 is Digital Insight ¡V Information-Driven Health & Care, and the conference addressed the increasingly international focus of eHealth and the importance of cross-border health ICT. The papers presented here cover many eHealth topics, from maternity records to rehabilitation and from staff training to information exchange.
Future ICT systems will inevitably involve machine learning and predictive analytics in order to provide actionable information to health professionals and support preventive healthcare concepts, and this book provides an insight into current research in health informatics and eHealth, addressing many issues central to the future of health and care. The book will be of interest to all healthcare researchers and practitioners. |
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Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health |
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Randell, R./ 9781614997528/ Price:EUR 144.00
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Over recent years there has been major investment in research infrastructure to harness the potential of routinely collected health data. In 2013, The Farr Institute for Health Informatics Research was established in the UK, undertaking health informatics research to enhance patient and public health by the analysis of data from multiple sources and unleashing the value of vast sources of clinical, biological, population and environmental data for public benefit. The Medical Informatics Europe (MIE) conference is already established as a key event in the calendar of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI); The Farr Institute has been establishing a conference series. For 2017, the decision was made to combine the power and established reputational excellence of EFMI with the emerging and innovative research of The Farr Institute community to create ¡¥Informatics for Health 2017¡¦, a joint conference that creates a scientific forum allowing these two communities to share knowledge, insights and experience, advance cross-disciplinary thinking, and stimulate creativity.
This book presents the 116 full papers presented at that conference, held in Manchester, UK in April 2017. The papers are grouped under five headings: connected and digital health; health data science; human, organisational, and social aspects; knowledge management; and quality, safety, and patient outcomes, and the book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the analysis and use of data to support more effective delivery of healthcare. |
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Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Public Health Perspective. |
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Paul F. A. Van Look/ 9780128102329/ Price:US$ 105.00
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The Health Debate. |
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Hunter, David J./ 9781447326977/ Price:GBP 17.99
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Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this best-selling book offers a fresh look at how it is coping with such pressures. The book explores the complexity of health policy and health services, offering a critical perspective on concerns including integrated care, the return of public health to local government and moves to devolve health services to local level. Crucially, it offers a critique of the market-style changes introduced by the Coalition government between 2010 and 2015. Students of health care and health policy, policy-makers and public health and health care professionals will find this lively and accessible reassessment of NHS reforms invaluable. |
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Dismantling the NHS?: Evaluating the Impact of Health Reforms |
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Mark Exworthy/ 9781447330226/ Price:GBP 90.99
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Multidisciplinary Public Health: Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce |
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Jenny Wright/ 9781447300328/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants, for those from non-medical backgrounds. Setting these changes in context it discusses implications for practitioners and the wider UK public health workforce.
A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK. This is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in public health, including public health academics and relevant postgraduate students. |
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Transforming Public Health in Developing Nations. |
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Sheikh, Mohamud/ 9781466687028/ Price:US$ 215.00
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The rise of globalized business has created a world village wherein ideas and industry transcend national boundaries. Unfortunately, the resulting increase in travel has accelerated the transmission of diseases, generating a surge in worldwide epidemics and increasing the necessity of innovative strategies for prevention, containment, and communication related to global health issues.
Transforming Public Health in Developing Nations showcases the latest developments, trends, and challenges within the field of international public health. Featuring empirical studies, case studies, reviews, and discussion notes, this authoritative text highlights diverse, important global health issues, making it an essential resource for professionals, researchers, and academics seeking insight on the latest developments in contemporary healthcare.
This reference work highlights a broad scope of current issues including global epidemics, worldwide health systems, mental health issues in developing nations, barriers to healthcare, sanitation and infection, cultural diversity in healthcare administration, cultural perceptions of reproductive health issues, international health costs and budgets, and health information technology.
Topics Covered
¡ECultural Issues in Healthcare
¡EEmerging Health Systems
¡EGlobal Epidemics in the 21st Century
¡EHealth Budget Costs and Calculations
¡EHealth Information Technology
¡EMental Health Issues
¡EReproductive Health
¡ETelemedicine
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Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. |
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Heymann, David L./ 9780875530185/ Price:US$ 68.25
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Studying Health Inequalities: An Applied Approach. |
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Wistow, Jonathan/ 9781447305279/ Price:GBP 28.99
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New public health governance arrangements under the Coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interventions. Through the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding and addressing these by drawing on complexity theory. Case studies illuminate the text, illustrating and discussing the issues in real life terms and enabling public health, health promotion and health policy students at postgraduate level to fully understand and address the complexities of health inequalities. The book is a valuable resource on current UK public health practice for academics, researchers and public health practitioners. |
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Mental Health Service Users in Research: Critical Sociological Perspectives. |
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Staddon, Patsy/ 9781447307341/ Price:GBP 28.99
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This book aims to show the value but also the difficulties encountered in the application of 'insider knowledge' in service user research. Mental health service users in research considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance. It examines how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, and asks why voices which challenge contemporary beliefs about health and the role of treatment are often silenced. An imbalance of power and opportunity for service users, and the stigmatising nature of services, are considered as human rights issues.Most of the contributors to the book are service users/survivors as well as academics. Their fields of expertise include LGB issues, racial tensions, and recovering from the shame and stigma of alcoholism. They stress the importance of research approaches which involve mutualities of respect and understanding within the worlds of researcher, clinician and service user/survivor. |
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Ethics of Care: Critical Advances in International Perspective. |
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Barnes, Marian/ 9781447316510/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Over the last 20 years there has been a flourishing of work on feminist care ethics. This collection makes a unique contribution to this body of work. The international contributors demonstrate the significance of care ethics as a transformative way of thinking across diverse geographical, policy and interpersonal contexts. From Tronto¡¦s analysis of global responsibilities, to Fudge Schormans¡¦ re-imagining of care from the perspective of people with learning disabilities, chapters highlight the necessity of thinking about the ethics of care to achieve justice and well-being within policies and practice. This book will be essential reading for all those seeking such outcomes. |
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| SM05-491 |
Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health |
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Mark A. Friend/ 9781598887235/ Price:US$ 91.00
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Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal. |
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O'Mathuna, Donal P./ 9789400738638/ Price:EUR 109.99
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Debates in Personalisation. |
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Needham, Catherine/ 9781447313427/ Price:GBP 25.99
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This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from practitioners, service users and academics come together to give an account of the practicalities and controversies associated with the implementation of personalised approaches. The conclusion examines how to make sense of the divergent accounts presented, asking if there is a value-based approach to person-centred care that all sides share. Written in a lively and accessible way, practitioners and academics in health and social care, social work, public policy and social policy will appreciate the interplay of rival arguments and the way that ambiguities in the care debate play out as policy ideas take programmatic form. |
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Governance, Commissioning and Public Health. |
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Marks, Linda/ 9781447304937/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Drawing on in-depth case studies across England, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Using original research, it shows how these links can be illustrated at a local level through commissioning practice related to health and wellbeing. Exploring the impact of governance on decision- making, Governance, commissioning and public health analyses how principles, such as social justice, and governance arrangements, including standards and targets, influence local strategies and priorities for public health investment. In developing ¡¥public health governance¡¦ as a critical concept, the study demonstrates the complexity of the governance landscape for public health and the leadership qualities required to negotiate it. This book is essential reading for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in governance and decision-making for public health. |
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| SM05-439 |
Reforming Healthcare: What's the Evidence?. |
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Greener, Ian/ 9781447307105/ Price:GBP 28.99
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NHS reform continues to be a topical yet contentious issue in the UK. Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics. It explores work considering the Conservative internal market of the 1990s and New Labour's healthcare reorganizations, including its attempts at performance management and the reintroduction of market-based reform from 2004 to 2010. It then considers the implications of this research for current debates about healthcare reorganization in England, and internationally. As the most up-to-date summary of what research says works in English healthcare reform, this essential review is aimed at anyone interested in the wide-ranging debates about health reorganization, but especially students and academics interested in social policy, public management and health policy. |
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| SM05-439 |
Multidisciplinary Public Health: Understanding the Development of the Modern Workforce. |
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Wright, Jenny/ 9781447300335/ Price:GBP 85.99
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Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants, for those from non-medical backgrounds. Setting these changes in context it discusses implications for practitioners and the wider UK public health workforce. A lively and comprehensive review of policy change, Multidisciplinary public health: Understanding the development of the modern workforce concludes with a reflection on the new public health system under way in England, making useful comparisons with the rest of the UK. This is an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in public health, including public health academics and relevant postgraduate students. |
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| SM05-432 |
Partnership Working in Public Health. |
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Hunter, David J./ 9781447301318/ Price:GBP 29.99
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The UK government¡¦s reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a ¡¦good thing¡¦ which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant emphasis on partnership working to secure effective policy and service delivery exists despite the evidence testifying to how difficult it is to make partnerships work or achieve results. Partnership working in public health presents the findings from a detailed study of public health partnerships in England. The lessons from the research are used to explore the government¡¦s changes in public health now being implemented, most of which centre on new partnerships called Health and Wellbeing Boards which have been established to work differently from their predecessors. The book assesses their likely impact and the implications for the future of public health partnerships. Drawing on systems thinking, it argues that partnerships can only succeed if they work in quite different ways. The book will therefore appeal to the public health community and students of health policy. |
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| SM05-432 |
Partnership Working in Health and Social Care: What Is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It? |
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Glasby, Jon/ 9781447312819/ Price:GBP 13.99
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UK health and social care are increasingly being asked to work together across traditional agency boundaries. Although this sounds easy in theory, doing it in practice is incredibly complicated and difficult. In many cases, moreover, current training programmes, research and textbooks are even more divided than front-line services, and practitioners and managers are often being given the task of making partnerships work without the necessary support. Against this background, the second edition of this bestselling book provides a concise 'warts and all' introduction to partnership and integration, summarising updated references to current policy and research, setting out useful frameworks and approaches, and helping policy makers and practitioners to work more effectively together, with greater emphasis on ¡¥integrated care¡¦. Written by the leading authors in the field and fully updated since the Health and Social Care Act (2012), the book is also fully evidence- and research-based, whilst still being accessible and applicable to everyday practice. Aimed at students, practitioners, managers and policy makers in health and social care, and including new reflective exercises and boxed examples, this is still the one book that everyone in the field should read. |
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| SM05-431 |
The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare. |
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Sheard, Sally/ 9781447314844/ Price:GBP 45.00
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Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. This book also provides the first comparative study of how developing countries sought better health and social welfare, enabled by the World Health Organisation and other agencies for whom Abel-Smith regularly worked. ,,This book offers an engaging and useful study for students and researchers in health and social policy, history, politics and economics. It will also be essential reading for professionals working in those government ministries and institutions that Brian Abel-Smith helped to shape.,,LSE Pioneers in Social Policy,This the first book in the LSE Pioneers in Social Policy series. Brian Abel-Smith Richard Titmuss and Peter Townsend were based at the London School of Economics and Political Science and made major contributions to the development of policies on the elderly, health care, law, poverty and welfare in the 20th century. This series of biographies tells the stories of these outstanding individuals: their backgrounds, ideas and work. |
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Partnership Working in Public Health. |
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Hunter, David J./ 9781447301325/ Price:GBP 79.99
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The UK government¡¦s reforms of the NHS and public health system require partnerships if they are to succeed. Those partnerships concerned with public health are especially important and are deemed to be a ¡¦good thing¡¦ which add, rather than consume, value. Yet the significant emphasis on partnership working to secure effective policy and service delivery exists despite the evidence testifying to how difficult it is to make partnerships work or achieve results. Partnership working in public health presents the findings from a detailed study of public health partnerships in England. The lessons from the research are used to explore the government¡¦s changes in public health now being implemented, most of which centre on new partnerships called Health and Wellbeing Boards which have been established to work differently from their predecessors. The book assesses their likely impact and the implications for the future of public health partnerships. Drawing on systems thinking, it argues that partnerships can only succeed if they work in quite different ways. The book will therefore appeal to the public health community and students of health policy. |
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| SM05-431 |
Unequal Health: The Scandal of Our Times. |
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Dorling, Danny/ 9781447305132/ Price:GBP 29.99
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Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the USA and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most peoples' health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people live longer. In his new book, academic and writer Daniel Dorling describes the current extent of inequalities in health as the scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health, including international peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures, newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative. As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the near future. |
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Better Health in Harder Times: Active Citizens and Innovation on the Frontline. |
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Davies, Celia/ 9781447306931/ Price:GBP 28.99
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For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically-advanced medicine provided free to the population has produced a widespread perception of patients as passive consumers of health care. This book renews for our times the collective compact that created our public services in the 1940s. Voices from service users and service providers show how this can be done. They offer testimony of what goes wrong and what can be put right when working together becomes the norm. Sections explore new ways of living and working with long-term conditions, more meaningful and effective approaches to service redesign, to use of information technology, leadership, co-production and creating and accounting for quality. Accessible to a wide range of readers, with short, accessible contributions this is a book to provoke and inspire. |
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| SM05-448 |
Radiation Injury Prevention and Mitigation in Humans. |
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Prasad, Kedar N./ 9781439874240/ Price:GBP 130.00
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Shaping Health Policy: Case Study Methods and Analysis. |
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Exworthy, Mark/ 9781847427571/ Price:GBP 30.99
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This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to under-graduates, post-graduates and academics in social policy, public management and health services research. |
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Better Health in Harder Times: Active Citizens and Innovation on the Frontline. |
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Davies, Celia/ 9781447306948/ Price:GBP 79.99
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For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically-advanced medicine provided free to the population has produced a widespread perception of patients as passive consumers of health care. This book renews for our times the collective compact that created our public services in the 1940s. Voices from service users and service providers show how this can be done. They offer testimony of what goes wrong and what can be put right when working together becomes the norm. Sections explore new ways of living and working with long-term conditions, more meaningful and effective approaches to service redesign, to use of information technology, leadership, co-production and creating and accounting for quality. Accessible to a wide range of readers, with short, accessible contributions this is a book to provoke and inspire. |
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Global Flu and You: A History of Influenza. |
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Dehner, George/ 9781780230283/ Price:GBP 20.00
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In Global Flu and You, George Dehner traces the origins of the disease and outlines the social and cultural changes that have enabled it to become an endemic threat to human health. In recent generations medical and scientific breakthroughs in studying and protecting against the virus have made rapid progress, providing governments with effective tools to safeguard public health. But social, demographic, economic and technological changes have also served to speed up and amplify the potential impacts of an influenza pandemic, potentially undermining the promise of these new protective strategies. |
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People-Centred Public Health. |
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South, Jane/ 9781447305309/ Price:GBP 29.99
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People-centred public health examines how members of the public can be involved in delivering health improvement, primarily as volunteers or lay health workers. With a foreword by Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Mike Grady, this timely book draws on a major study of lay engagement in public health, using case studies and real life examples to provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of policy, practice and research in this area. In an economic and political climate where there is renewed interest in the role of the citizen, the authors challenge old orthodoxies in public health and build a coherent argument for radical change in the way public agencies support lay action. The book is aimed at readers with an academic or professional interest in public health and/or community involvement, including practitioners and managers within public services and the voluntary sector, and post-graduate and undergraduate students studying public health, health promotion, public sector management, social policy and community work. |
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People-Centred Public Health. |
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Jane South/ 9781447305316/ Price:GBP 79.99
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People-centred public health examines how members of the public can be involved in delivering health improvement, primarily as volunteers or lay health workers. With a foreword by Professor Sir Michael Marmot and Dr Mike Grady, this timely book draws on a major study of lay engagement in public health, using case studies and real life examples to provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of policy, practice and research in this area. In an economic and political climate where there is renewed interest in the role of the citizen, the authors challenge old orthodoxies in public health and build a coherent argument for radical change in the way public agencies support lay action. The book is aimed at readers with an academic or professional interest in public health and/or community involvement, including practitioners and managers within public services and the voluntary sector, and post-graduate and undergraduate students studying public health, health promotion, public sector management, social policy and community work. |
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Improving Global Health. |
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Hughes, Barry B./ 9781594518966/ Price:US$ 195.00
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An Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology. |
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Palmer, Lyle J./ 9781861348975/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Genetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science but until now there has been no introductory text. This book begins with a primer in human molecular genetics and then examines standard methods in population genetics and genetic epidemiology required for an adequate grounding in the field. Among much else, the book contains discussion of the public health aspects of the new genetics, and of epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases.Written by leading international experts and supplemented by a glossary and in-chapter guides to further reading, this essential textbook will be widely welcomed by teachers and students on many courses internationally. |
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Governing Health and Consumption: Sensible Citizens, Behaviour and the City. |
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Herrick, Clare/ 9781847426383/ Price:GBP 85.99
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This book critically explores the urban governance of healthy lifestyles and the contemporary problematisations of the obesity, sedentarism and alcohol "epidemics". To do so, it uses US and UK case studies to shed light on the complex socio-spatial dynamics of responsibilities for health and argues for an engagement with the construct of "sensible" behaviour at a time of its rising political salience. This book will appeal to sociologists, geographers, anthropologists and those concerned with the governance of health and lifestyle. |
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Organisational Innovation in Health Services: Lessons from the NHS Treatment Centres. |
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Gabbay, John/ 9781847424785/ Price:GBP 28.99
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Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and clinicians undertaking any organisational innovation cannot afford to ignore these findings. |
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Evidence, Policy and Practice: Critical Perspectives in Health and Social Care. |
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Glasby, Jon/ 9781847422842/ Price:GBP 24.99
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This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process. It critiques the notion of 'evidence-based practice', suggesting instead a more inclusive idea of 'knowledge-base practice', based in part on the lived experience of service users. It will be of interest to everyone in health and social care policy, practice and research. |
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An Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology. |
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Palmer, Lyle J./ 9781861348982/ Price:GBP 74.99
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Genetic epidemiology is a very rapidly developing field that has acquired a central role in modern biomedical science but until now there has been no introductory text. This book begins with a primer in human molecular genetics and then examines standard methods in population genetics and genetic epidemiology required for an adequate grounding in the field. Among much else, the book contains discussion of the public health aspects of the new genetics, and of epidemiological methods for studying genes and environmental factors in complex diseases.Written by leading international experts and supplemented by a glossary and in-chapter guides to further reading, this essential textbook will be widely welcomed by teachers and students on many courses internationally. |
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Health Informatics: The Transformative Power of Innovation: Selected Papers from the 19th Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2011). |
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Hansen, D.P./ 9781607507901/ Price:EUR 105.00
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This book presents the proceedings of full scientific papers from this annual conference for the first time in monograph format. The focus of HIC 2011 draws on a fundamental aspect of health informatics: its ability to transform processes and practices within healthcare through innovation. The 24 papers were selected after a rigorous double-blind peer review process from the 39 submitted. The topics included cover a wide range of different sectors in the health system, from primary and acute care to preventative and public health. Many of the papers not only provide solid background and technical substance, but also exhibit practical implementations and demonstrations of their worth. |
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Organisational innovation in health services: Lessons from the NHS Treatment Centres. |
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Gabbay, John/ 9781847424792/ Price:GBP 74.99
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Amid a welter of simultaneous policy initiatives, treatment centres were a top-down NHS innovation that became subverted into a multiplicity of solutions to different local problems. This highly readable account of how and why they evolved with completely unforeseen results reveals clear, practical lessons based on case study research involving over 200 interviews. Policy makers, managers and clinicians undertaking any organisational innovation cannot afford to ignore these findings. |
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Shaping health policy: Case study methods and analysis. |
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Exworthy, Mark/ 9781847427588/ Price:GBP 85.99
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This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to under-graduates, post-graduates and academics in social policy, public management and health services research. |
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Credit Crunch Health Care: How Economics Can Save Our Publicly-Funded Health Services.
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Donaldson, Cam/ 9781847427533/ Price:GBP 70.99
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The credit crunch continues to threaten publicly-funded health care. World-leading health economist, Cam Donaldson, defends NHS-type systems on the same basis as their detractors: economic efficiency. However, protecting government funding of health care is not enough. Donaldson goes on to show how we can get more out of our systems by addressing issues of value for money. In particular, what has been achieved and how much more can be achieved through health care reform and serious priority setting? The issues addressed in the book have global appeal and this accessible book will therefore be attractive to the public, health professionals and health policy specialists. |
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Squatting with Dignity: Lessons from India. |
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Alok, Kumar/ 9788132107446/ Price:GBP 19.99
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| SM05-399 |
MAK Value Documentations, Vol. 26. |
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CPH Exam Quick Reference Review. |
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Holmes, Larry/ 9780763774752/ Price:US$ 78.95
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The Political Economy of Health Care: Where the NHS Came from and Where It Could Lead. |
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Hart, Julian T./ 9781847427823/ Price:GBP 22.99
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Drawing on clinical experience dating from the birth of the NHS in 1948, Julian Tudor Hart, a politically active GP in a Welsh coal mining community, charts the progress of the NHS from its 19th century origins in workers' mutual aid societies, to its current forced return to the market. His starting point is a detailed analysis of how clinical decisions are made. He explores the changing social relationships in the NHS as a gift economy, how these may be affected by reducing care to commodity status, and the new directions they might take if the NHS resumed progress independently from the market.This new edition of this bestselling book has been entirely rewritten with two new chapters, and includes new material on resistance to that world-wide process. The essential principle in the book is that patients need to develop as active citizens and co-producers of health gain in a humanising society and the author's aim is to promote it wherever people recognise that pursuit of profit may be a brake on rational progress. |
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| SM05-397 |
Using Theory to Explore Health, Medicine and Society. |
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Kennedy, Peter/ 9781847424013/ Price:GBP 26.99
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This book draws on a broad range of theoretical perspectives to bring to life social theories relating to health and illness. Using case studies it provides contrasting insights into the expanding jurisdiction of medicine over popular issues, including binge drinking, obesity, the prominence of therapy and the search for happiness.
The book will appeal to students and academics to show how theory can be applied to issues in health and medicine. It is also relevant reading for health professionals who may lack knowledge of social theory and how it can help to understand the relationship between health, medicine and society. The book will also benefit students in the social sciences who are familiar with social theory and interested in how it can be applied to health, medicine and society. |
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The Public Health System in England. |
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Hunter, David J./ 9781847424624/ Price:GBP 26.99
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Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change but health inequalities continue to widen. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. The public health system in England offers a wide-ranging, provocative and accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, exploring how its parameters have shifted and what the origins of dilemmas in public health practice are. The book will therefore appeal to public health professionals and students of health policy, potentially engaging them in political and social advocacy. |
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The Public Health System in England. |
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Hunter, David/ 9781847424631/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response to new threats to health, including from lifestyle diseases, risks of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change but health inequalities continue to widen. Such developments have profound implications for the future direction of public health policy and practice. The public health system in England offers a wide-ranging, provocative and accessible assessment of challenges confronting a public health system, exploring how its parameters have shifted and what the origins of dilemmas in public health practice are. The book will therefore appeal to public health professionals and students of health policy, potentially engaging them in political and social advocacy. |
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Using Theory to Explore Health, Medicine and Society. |
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Kennedy, Peter/ 9781847424020/ Price:GBP 79.99
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This book draws on a broad range of theoretical perspectives to bring to life social theories relating to health and illness. Using case studies it provides contrasting insights into the expanding jurisdiction of medicine over popular issues, including binge drinking, obesity, the prominence of therapy and the search for happiness.
The book will appeal to students and academics to show how theory can be applied to issues in health and medicine. It is also relevant reading for health professionals who may lack knowledge of social theory and how it can help to understand the relationship between health, medicine and society. The book will also benefit students in the social sciences who are familiar with social theory and interested in how it can be applied to health, medicine and society. |
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Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies |
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John Ehiri/ 9781461499015/ Price:EUR 99.99
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Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization. |
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Price-Smith, Andrew T./ 9780262662031/ Price:US$ 25.00
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Rare Diseases: Focus on Rare Plasma Related Disorders. |
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Valverde, J. L./ 9781607500551/ Price:EUR 120.00
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This publication provides an international overview of issues relating to rare plasma related disorders. Unlike many rare diseases, which cannot be diagnosed or appropriately treated, most rare plasma related disorders are treatable, but unacceptable diagnosis rates or misdiagnosis often means that treatment begins too late, or not at all. In addition, information on treatment options, symptoms, diagnosis and access to treatment is not optimal, leading to unnecessary related costs. Rare diseases have been identified as one of the ongoing priorities in the EU Public Health Programme. Cooperation and collaboration among Member States will facilitate the bringing together of scarce and fragmented resources from across the EU and enable patients and professionals to share and coordinate expertise and information. This volume features contributions by leading specialists and key stakeholders. They serve to highlight the priorities pertaining to this community and to identify the solutions and actions necessary to ensure that patients affected by rare plasma related disorders receive appropriate treatment in a timely manner to help them lead normal, happy and productive lives. Some of the conditions discussed include: Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency; C1 inhibitor deficiency; Guillain-Barre' syndrome; Haemophilia; Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Primary Immunodeficiencies. The political, regulatory and legislative framework are also explored. The book will provide a valuable resource for anyone seeking a better understanding of the priorities for patients affected by rare plasma related disorders and will contribute to a better awareness of this important public health issue. |
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Public Health Ethics and Practice. |
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Peckham, Stephen/ 9781847421029/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health. |
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Public Health Ethics and Practice. |
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Peckham, Stephen/ 9781847421036/ Price:GBP 79.99
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Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of treatments, interventions and health promotion activities on an almost daily basis. This goes hand in hand with increasing medical knowledge, and the growth of new and innovative medical technologies and pharmaceuticals. In addition, the same technology and knowledge is increasing professional and public awareness of new potential public health threats (e.g. pandemic influenza). At the level of public policy, concerns over the rising costs of health care have led to a more explicit focus on 'health promotion', and the surveillance of both 'patients' and the so-called 'worried well'. Health professionals and policy makers also have to consider the implications of managing these risks, for example restricting individual liberty through enforced quarantine (in the wake of SARS and more recently swine flu) and the more general distribution of harms and benefits. Balancing the rights and responsibilities of individuals and wider populations is becoming more complex and problematic. This book will play a key role in opening out a discussion of public health ethics. It examines the principles and values that support an ethical approach to public health practice and provides examples of some of the complex areas which those practising, analysing and planning the health of populations have to navigate. It will therefore be essential reading for current practitioners, those involved in public health research and a valuable aid for anyone interested in examining the tensions within and the development of public health. |
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Pandemic Influenza: Emergency Planning and Community Preparedness. |
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Ryan, Jeffrey R./ 9781420060874/ Price:GBP 175.00
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Social Inequality and Public health. |
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Babones, Salvatore J./ 9781847423207/ Price:GBP 29.99
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This book brings together the latest research findings from some of the most respected medical and social scientists in the world, surveying four pathways to understanding the social determinants of health. |
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Epidemiology for Public Health Practice. |
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Friis, Robert H./ 9780763751616/ Price:US$ 84.95
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From authors Friis and Sellers comes the Fourth Edition of this best-selling introduction to epidemiology: Epidemiology for Public Health Practice. In clear and accessible language, this comprehensive text will introduce your students to the most important and timely issues in epidemiology today.
New to this edition:
Information on new disease outbreaks:
E. coli in spinach
Avian influenza
XDR TB
Expanded coverage of the history of epidemiology
New coverage of the natural history of disease
Updated coverage of morbidity and mortality data throughout the text
Method for rate adjustment updated to the 2000 standard population
New information on health disparities, including the Hispanic mortality paradox
Updated information on data sources including notifiable diseases
Additional statistical measures provided, e.g., measures of life expectancy
New coverage of models of causality
New chapter on professional issues in epidemiology
Exciting new figures, tables, and exhibits provided throughout
Additional exercises and study questions |
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Managing the Causes of Work-related Stress: A Step-by-step Approach Using the Management Standards.(With CD-ROM) |
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Health and Safety Executive/ 9780717662739/ Price:GBP 10.95
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Secondary Data Sources for Public Health: A Practical Guide. |
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Boslaugh, Sarah/ 9780521690232/ Price:GBP 24.99
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Osteoarthritis, Inflammation and Degradation: A Continuum. |
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Buckwalter, J./ 9781586037734/ Price:EUR 115.00
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Osteoarthritis is a major public health issue due to its impact in term of handicap. Moreover, Ageing of the world population and outbreak of obesity in industrialized and non-industrialized countries will dramatically increase its incidence in the next years. Regarded as a multi-factorial disease, today mechanistic and inflammatory theories are no more opposed but, on the contrary, are framed within the same continuum: osteoarthritis, inflammation and degeneration. In order to collect major information in a benchmark book on the fundamental aspects of this disease, internationally well-known authors, from multiple specialties, gathered to analyse, dissect and finally try to understand the secrets of a disease which should no more be regarded as the common and relentless result of ageing or of passive wear but much more as an active disease able to benefit from the best targeted pharmacological (anti-cytokines, inhibitors of signalling pathways, inhibitors of proteases, etc.) and non-pharmacological (cellular therapy, gene therapy, cartilage engineering etc.) therapies, current and future. |
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3-2-1 Code It!(With CD-ROM) |
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Green, Michelle A./ 9781418012557/ Price:US$ 143.95
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Medical Informatics in Enlarged Europe: Proceedings of the European Federation for Medical Informatics Special Topics Conference May 30-June 1, 2007. |
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Bryden, John S./ 9781586037635/ Price:EUR 70.00
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This publication describes the role of informatics in developing primary care across an enlarged Europe. Two aspects are covered in detail, the first topic is (1) Informatics to support the delivery of more effective primary clinical care in enlarged Europe especially with major citizen movement into other countries and other health systems. The second topic deals with (2) using routinely collected data for quality improvement, health service planning and research. There is balance of information from countries in transition and more developed ones informing how primary care informatics may encourage the achievement of these aims. The contributions cover the spectrum from countries embarking on the computerisation of primary care to those who have advanced integrated systems. |
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MEDINFO 2007, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Kuhn, K. A./ 9781586037741/ Price:EUR 290.00
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The theme of Medinfo2007 is ¡§Building Sustainable Health Systems¡¨. Particular foci are health challenges for the developing and developed world, the social and political context of healthcare, safe and effective healthcare, and the difficult task of building and maintaining complex health information systems. Sustainable health information systems are those that can meet today¡¦s needs without compromising the needs of future generations. To build a global knowledge society, there needs to be an increased cooperation between science and technology and access to high-quality knowledge and information. The papers presented are refereed and from all over the world. They reflect the breadth and depth of the field of biomedical and health informatics, covering topics such as; health information systems, knowledge and data management, education, standards, consumer health and human factors, emerging technologies, sustainability, organizational and economic issues, genomics, and image and signal processing. As this volume carries such a wide collection, it will be of great interest to anyone engaged in biomedical and health informatics research and application. |
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Epigenetic Markers. |
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Widschwendter, M./ 9781586037222/ Price:EUR 138.00
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DNA methylation is an epigenetic process that occurs when a methyl group binds to one of DNA¡¦s four bases, cytosine. These changes are responsible for controlling the activity of genes by turning them off. DNA methylation patterns differ dramatically between healthy and diseased tissue and thereby can serve as biomarkers, opening a window into earlier detection of disease. |
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Electronic Structure, Correlation Effects and Physical Properties of D- And F-Metals and Their Compounds. |
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Irkhin, V. Y./ 9781904602552/ Price:GBP 90.00
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Mixed Methods, 4-Vols/Set. |
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Bryman, Alan/ 9781412911634/ Price:GBP 675.00
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Mixed methods research has become one of the major areas of growth in social research methodology in the last 10 years. The divisions between quantitative and qualitative research have increasingly given way to imaginative ways of combining the two approaches and a growing acceptance of adopting a multi-method approach.
Much of the literature on mixed-methods research is highly dispersed in a wide variety of journals and other publications. A great deal of it is not well known and quite a lot of it is inaccessible. Alan Bryman, widely recognized as an authority on the subject, brings together the key articles in this important field to form a definitive resource collection.
Volume I outlinines the epistemological and ontological issues relating to the debate about quantitative and qualitative research and how these have an impact on the possibility of mixing methods.
Volume II is concerned with the combination of different methods within quantitative research and within qualitative research.
Volume III addresses the methodological issues involved in combining quantitative and qualitative research - the different ways in which mixed-methods research is actually accomplished.
Volume IV continues the kinds of material used in Volume III but will also include some examples of combining quantitative and qualitative research. |
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Prison Health: A guide for health care practitioners in prisons. |
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Pont, Jorg/ 9781856423137/ Price:GBP 9.99
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Prisons exist to enforce the requirements of the courts for custodial sentences. In so doing, a balance must be struck between safety and security on the one hand, and respect for human dignity on the other. An important aspect of this is the right to health care and medical services, the principles of which are set out in various United Nations and European covenants, recommendations, and declarations. Health care practitioners working in prisons should be familiar with these statements and this guide discusses them and gives clear references for further reading. Translating these principles into the practice of health care within the prison environment can, however, present complex ethical dilemmas to prison healthcare practitioners when conflicting demands are made upon them. This short guide is an attempt to guide practitioners through some of these situations with clear practical advice based upon medical ethics and international covenants. The prison health care practitioner faces extraordinary challenges peculiar to their work. They encounter a significantly high number of cases of drug abuse, the communicable diseases of AIDS, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis, and cases of psychiatric disorders, all of which are adversely affected by the overcrowded conditions in many prisons. This guide contains concise information on the main diseases and disorders affecting the prisoner¡¦s health which the practitioner must be familiar with. |
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Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. |
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Crane, D. Russell/ 9780761930419/ Price:GBP 155.00
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This unique Handbook presents a wide range of chapters representing state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. In addition, coverage includes issues related to public policy, healthcare financing, and the conduct of funded research related to families and health.
Coverage is broad with contributions from academics across a variety of disciplines. A major goal is to highlight common issues, concerns, and goals across diverse fields and the benefits of bringing multiple perspectives to bear on these issues. A significant portion of the handbook is also devoted to interventions to improve family health in such areas as genetically transmitted diseases, illnesses of childhood, chronic illness, caregiving, and medical family therapy |
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Doctors' Errors and Mistakes of Medicine: Must Health Care Deteriorate? |
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Wolman, Moshe/ 9781586034030/ Price:EUR 94.00
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During the last decades, healthcare in the various industrialized countries has been deteriorating steadily. The enormous progress of medicine in the same period could only partly compensate for the loss. This book describes the deterioration of healthcare that increases continually. It analyses its causes and outlines the measures that might prevent or at least slow the change. The deterioration of healthcare, variable in different fields, progressing at different paces in the various industrialized countries, is produced mainly by two types of causes. Minor ones, resulting from lack of knowledge, or by inadequate equipment or procedures, can be corrected by relatively simple means, such as education and technical or procedural improvements. The major causes for the deterioration involve general policy whose effects are the steady decrease in monitoring health care and the change of healthcare into profit-seeking service. The data collected and its analysis is based on over 300 articles in major medical and nursing journals. It has three parts: part 1 deals with individual doctors' errors, part 2 with errors of the medical establishment, and part 3 is devoted to more theoretical and philosophical discussions concerning medical practice as a clinical science. |
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Global Health Informatics Education. |
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Hovenga, E. J. S./ 9781586034542/ Price:EUR 142.00
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Throughout the world, healthcare professionals often lack knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of systematically processing data, information and knowledge and of the resulting impact on quality decision-making. They are often asked to use information technologies of which they have limited appreciation, in order to enhance their practices through better use of information resources. However, for systematically processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and in healthcare, healthcare professionals who are well-trained in medical informatics or health informatics are needed. It will only be through improved education of healthcare professionals and through an increase in the number of well-trained workers in health and medical informatics that this lack of knowledge and associated skills can begin to be reversed. Although we can recognize further progress in educating health and a considerable number of educational programs for health informatics / medical informatics specialists have been set up, there is still a need to enhance these educational activities world wide, considering global developments as well as new curricular concepts and technological opportunities. IMIA and in particular its working group on health and medical informatics education is the leading international society stimulating such educational activities in various ways. This book will especially be helpful for educators in the field of health / medical informatics. |
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MEDINFO 2004: Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics, 2-Vols/Set. |
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Fieschi, Marius/ 9781586034443/ Price:EUR 319.00
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A fundamental challenge for medical informatics is to develop and apply better ways of understanding how information technologies and methods can help support the best care for every patient every day given available medical knowledge and resources. In order to provide the most effective healthcare possible, the activities of teams of health professionals have to be coordinated through well-designed processes centered on the needs of patients. For information systems to be accepted and used in such an environment, they must balance standardization based on shared medical knowledge with the flexibility required for customization to the individual patient. Developing innovative approaches to design and build evidence-based careflow management systems is essential for providing the knowledge management infrastructure of health care organizations that seeks to increase performance in delivering high quality care services by efficiently exploiting available resources. Parallel challenges arise in the organization of research at the biological and clinical levels, where the focus on systematically organizing and supporting processes of scientific inquiry by novel informatics methods and databases are in their very early stages. These Proceedings of Medinfo 2004 demonstrate the base of knowledge medical informatics professionals will collectively draw upon in the years ahead to meet these challenges and realize opportunities. |
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Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, The. |
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Albrecht, Gary L./ 9780761942726/ Price:GBP 45.00
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This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.
Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers receive not only a complete survey of social science, health and medicine in one volume, they are further provided with an authoritative guide to methodologies, key concepts, central theoretical traditions and an agenda for future research and practice.
The Handbook answers the need, expressed by social scientists and medical practitioners, for an authoritative, inter-disciplinary study which demonstrates the contribution and promise of social science disciplines in the crucial and rapidly changing field of health and medicine. The book will also be of interest to nurses, students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, epidemology, primary care and public health. The Handbook signals the coming of age of the social sciences in the arenas of medicine and health studies |
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The Tobacco Dependence Treatment Handbook: A Guide to Best Practices. |
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Abrams, David B./ 9781572308497/ Price:US$ 50.00
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This unique clinical handbook offers the knowledge, skills, and materials needed to help all types of smokers, even the most hard-core, successfully quit. Provided are assessment tools, treatment planning guidelines, and a series of complete treatment packages, ranging from ultra-brief to more intensive options. Designed for use in a variety of settings by a wide range of providers, the volume is evidence-based and consistent with the latest national guidelines on best practice. The authors, leading scientist-practitioners, incorporate the latest pharmacotherapeutic approaches as well as proven motivational, cognitive, and behavioral techniques. Strategies are presented for tailoring treatment to individual smokers and for preventing relapse. Also included are session-by-session intervention guidelines, helpful case examples, and dozens of requisite handouts and forms, ready to photocopy and use. |
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Biostatistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology. |
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Elston, Robert C./ 9780471486312/ Price:US$ 852.75
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Human Genetics concerns the study of genetic forces in man. By studying our genetic make-up we are able to understand more about our heritage and evolution. Some of the original, and most significant research in genetics centred around the study of the genetics of complex diseases - genetic epidemiology.
This is the third in a highly successful series of books based on articles from the Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. This volume will be a timely and comprehensive reference, for a subject that has seen a recent explosion of interest following the completion of the first draft of the Human Genome Mapping Project. The editors have updated the articles from the Human Genetics section of the EoB, have adpated other articles to give them a genetic feel, and have included a number of newly commissioned articles to ensure the work is comprehensive and provides a self-contained reference. |
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Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research and Practice. |
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Sussman, Steve/ 9780761916734/ Price:GBP 110.00
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The Handbook of Program Development for Health Behavior Research & Practice is intended to take the reader from program development theory through program activity analysis and selection, to immediate impact studies, and intermediate and long-term program outcome measurement. |
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Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics. |
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Keating, Daniel P./ 9781572304550/ Price:US$ 51.00
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1. Modernity's Paradox, Keating and Hertzman
I. The Gradient Effect in Developmental Health
2. Population Health and Human Development, Hertzman
3. Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills, Power and Hertzman
4. When Children's Social Development Fails, Tremblay
5. Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of Families, Schools, and Communities, Willms
6. Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for Adults?: Achievement and Health of Children in the United States, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, and Britto
7. Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and Their Responsiveness to Intervention during Early Childhood, Case, Griffin, and Kelly
II. Fundamental Processes: Biology and Development
8. Mechanisms of Brain Development: Neuronal Sculpting by the Physical and Social Environment, Cynader and Frost
9. Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys, Suomi
10. Psychosocial Factors and Psychoneuroimmunology within a Lifespan Perspective, Coe
11. Individual Pathways in Competence and Coping: From Regulatory Systems to Habits of Mind, Keating and Miller
III. Human Development and the Learning Society
12. The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda, Keating
13. Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and Work, Rohlen
14. Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations, Scardamalia and Bereiter
IV. The Ecology of Child Development: Lessons for a Learning Society
15. Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches, Offord, Kraemer, Kazdin, Jensen, Harrington, and Gardner
16. The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1, 2, 3, GO! Project, Bouchard
17. "It Takes a Village...," and New Roads to Get There, Pence
18. Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations, Keating |
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Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, The. |
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Albrecht, Gary L./ 9780761956174/ Price:GBP 125.00
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This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine.
Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section consists of specially commissioned chapters designed to examine the vital conceptual and methodological practice and policy issues. Readers receive not only a complete survey of social science, health and medicine in one volume, they are further provided with an authoritative guide to methodologies, key concepts, central theoretical traditions and an agenda for future research and practice.
The Handbook answers the need, expressed by social scientists and medical practitioners, for an authoritative, inter-disciplinary study which demonstrates the contribution and promise of social science disciplines in the crucial and rapidly changing field of health and medicine. The book will also be of interest to nurses, students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, epidemology, primary care and public health. The Handbook signals the coming of age of the social sciences in the arenas of medicine and health studies |
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Developmental Health and the Wealth of Nations: Social, Biological, and Educational Dynamics. |
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Keating, Daniel P./ 9781572304543/ Price:US$ 106.00
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1. Modernity's Paradox, Keating and Hertzman
I. The Gradient Effect in Developmental Health
2. Population Health and Human Development, Hertzman
3. Health, Well-Being, and Coping Skills, Power and Hertzman
4. When Children's Social Development Fails, Tremblay
5. Quality and Inequality in Children's Literacy: The Effects of Families, Schools, and Communities, Willms
6. Are Socioeconomic Gradients for Children Similar to Those for Adults?: Achievement and Health of Children in the United States, Brooks-Gunn, Duncan, and Britto
7. Socioeconomic Gradients in Mathematical Ability and Their Responsiveness to Intervention during Early Childhood, Case, Griffin, and Kelly
II. Fundamental Processes: Biology and Development
8. Mechanisms of Brain Development: Neuronal Sculpting by the Physical and Social Environment, Cynader and Frost
9. Developmental Trajectories, Early Experiences, and Community Consequences: Lessons from Studies with Rhesus Monkeys, Suomi
10. Psychosocial Factors and Psychoneuroimmunology within a Lifespan Perspective, Coe
11. Individual Pathways in Competence and Coping: From Regulatory Systems to Habits of Mind, Keating and Miller
III. Human Development and the Learning Society
12. The Learning Society: A Human Development Agenda, Keating
13. Social Software for a Learning Society: Relating School and Work, Rohlen
14. Schools as Knowledge-Building Organizations, Scardamalia and Bereiter
IV. The Ecology of Child Development: Lessons for a Learning Society
15. Lowering the Burden of Suffering: Monitoring the Benefits of Clinical, Targeted, and Universal Approaches, Offord, Kraemer, Kazdin, Jensen, Harrington, and Gardner
16. The Community as a Participative Learning Environment: The Case of Centraide of Greater Montreal 1, 2, 3, GO! Project, Bouchard
17. "It Takes a Village...," and New Roads to Get There, Pence
18. Developmental Health as the Wealth of Nations, Keating |
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