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Emotional Intelligence in Health and Social Care: A Guide for Improving Human Relationships
Paperback,
22/11/2011,
£34.99
£31.49
This book adopts a fresh approach to personal and professional development in healthcare. Highly recommended for all healthcare educators and students.
Global Health
Paperback,
03/12/2015,
£28.99
£26.09
A concise introduction to the contexts, theories and practicalities of health provision in a globalised world.
Understanding The Sociology Of Health 3ed
Paperback,
16/12/2011,
£25.99
£23.39
A down-to-earth introduction to the sociology of health and already widely used on undergraduate courses in Health and Nursing. Provides great coverage of the key topics with helpful examples, without being too full of jargon.
Global Challenge Health Care Rationing
7,
01/02/2000,
£26.99
£18.89
Explains about priority setting. This work, a useful read for general readers as well as specialists, is written by people involved in priority setting, either as decision makers or researchers. It shows how different countries and disciplines are approach the allocation of resources between competing claims.
Global Change and Health
Paperback,
01/11/2005,
£24.99
£17.49
Global health is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field as public health practitioners recognize the important challenges that global changes are posing for human health. This title covers issues such as: food, tobacco and pharmaceuticals; emerging infectious diseases; climate change; economy and trade; and security and governance.
Complete A-Z of Health & Social CareComplete A-Z Health and Social C
Paperback,
15/02/2003,
£12.99
£11.69
Managing the Business of Healthcare
Paperback,
19/06/2001,
£23.99
£16.79
Focuses on the importance of business awareness for health care professionals. This title provides an overview of key aspects of business planning, financial and personnel issues. It covers the policy context, operational aspects of delivering health care and quality as a management agenda in the context of clinical governance.
Alcohol and Drug Misuse: A Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals 2ed
Paperback,
11/12/2017,
£38.99
£35.09
Nursing in Partnership with Patients and Carers
Paperback,
12/05/2011,
£24.99
£22.49
This book provides a timely guide to enabling patient and carer participation in nursing care, made relevant for nursing students.
Reablement Services in Health and Social Care: A guide to practice for students and support workers
Paperback,
19/04/2018,
£26.99
£24.29
Health Communication: A Media and Cultural Studies Approach
Paperback,
02/12/2014,
£29.99
£26.99
Using a unique cultural studies approach to assess the world of health promotion and public health policy, and with clear links between media theory and health communication in practice, this timely book examines the influence of both traditional and emerging forms of media on international public health.
Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice 4ed
Paperback,
02/03/2019,
£25.99
£23.39
This highly anticipated new edition of Glenn Laverack's Public Health: Power, Empowerment and Professional Practice has been fully revised throughout to provide readers with a practical understanding of how to help others to empower themselves in public health practice.
Sexual Health of Men: Dealing with Conflict and Change, Pt. 1
Paperback,
20/03/2008,
£32.99
£29.69
Explores constraints and opportunities for addressing and promoting the sexual health of men. This title redresses the balance between society's traditional views and expectations of men's sexual health, compared to the sexual health of women. It considers various aspects of sexual health, including historic developments and social considerations.
Models and Frameworks for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Linking Evidence to Action
Paperback,
23/04/2010,
£39.50
£35.55
The Evidence-Based Nursing Series is co-published with Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The series focuses on implementing evidence-based practice in nursing and mirrors the remit of Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, encompassing clinical practice, administration, research and public policy.
Scared to Death: From BSE to Coronavirus: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
Paperback,
06/08/2020,
£14.99
£13.49
This book tells the inside story of each of the major 'scares' of the past two decades, showing for the first time how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern, and demonstrating how they left us completely unprepared for the most disruptive and dangerous event of all: COVID-19.
Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 4ed
Paperback,
23/04/2020,
£34.99
£31.49
This is the quick, go-to-reference book for public health trainees and practitioners. It distils information from the core disciplines of public health into one concise volume. It is also packed with practical tips on professional competencies and skills development, as well as new emerging topics.
Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Paperback,
01/08/2013,
£10.99
£9.89
First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. This title tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.
Whose Health Is It, Anyway?
Paperback,
00/11/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
Whose Health Is It, Anyway? outlines why health is truly our most untapped opportunity for prosperity and happiness in the 21st century, individually and jointly as whole nations.
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Hardback,
27/10/2020,
£20.00
£18.00
A deep, science-backed look at how the coronavirus pandemic will change the way we live forever -- from renowned physician and sociologist Nicholas Christakis.
The Rome Plague Diaries: Lockdown Life in the Eternal City
Hardback,
04/02/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rome: A History in Seven Sackings.
How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for Covid-19 and Beyond
Paperback,
22/03/2021,
£12.00
£10.80
Eminent expert in vaccine development John Rhodes offers an essential, up-to-the-minute primer on how scientists test and distribute vaccines.
Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial
Paperback,
12/04/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
A history of immunization practices, from Louis Pasteur to vaccine scepticism and Covid-19.
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Hardback,
01/04/2021,
£20.00
£18.00
A vivid, sweeping history of mankind's battles with infectious disease, for fans of bestsellers Yuval Harari's Sapiens and John Barry's The Great Influenza.
Be Period Positive: Reframe Your Thinking And Reshape The Future Of Menstruation
Paperback,
08/07/2021,
£9.99
£8.99
Perimenopause Solution: Take control of your hormones before they take control of you
Paperback,
22/07/2021,
£14.99
£13.49
Key Topics in Public Health: Essential Briefings on Prevention and Health Promotion
Paperback,
24/05/2005,
£25.99
£23.39
Provides information about twelve key topics in public health, such as diabetes, cancer, smoking and teenage pregnancy, and how prevention and health promotion should be tackled at community and one-to-one levels. The twelve topics are the 'must-dos' of public health action.
Workplace Learning in Health and Social Care: A Student's Guide
Paperback,
01/02/2011,
£22.99
£20.69
Provides some great tips on learning within a work environment. This book is bursting with helpful knowledge on formulating action plans, working with mentors, personal development plans and the importance of career planning. It includes concepts that are useable and applicable to all student nurses.
Health, Ethnicity and Diabetes: Racialised Constructions of 'Risky' South Asian Bodies
Hardback,
19/05/2016,
£63.00
£56.70
Health Policy and Nursing: Influence, Development and Impact
Paperback,
25/10/1999,
£34.99
£31.49
Nursing has a crucial role to play in the necessary review of today's health care systems. This book explores the ways in which nurses can engage with and influence the formation of health policy now, and for the future.
Key Concepts in Public Health
Paperback,
18/11/2008,
£27.99
£25.19
Focuses on 50 key issues across the public health discipline. Readers can dip into the book to find a snapshot of the definition of the concept, or read it through like a regular textbook from start to finish.
Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860
Paperback,
06/12/2000,
£32.99
£22.39
Since 1860, life expectancies and standards of general health have improved dramatically in industrialized societies. This work sets out to examine the relationship between health and medicine and how it has changed in Britain over a period of 150 years.
Politics of Healthcare in Britain
Paperback,
18/12/2007,
£32.99
£21.69
`This is an excellent textbook for which there is currently a niche in the market. [It] will be invaluable to students of health policy, health studies and health service research' - Professor Michael Calnan, University of Bristol
Written by leading academics in their field this book provides a clear and considered overview of the politics of health care in Britain. Bringing together a wide range of material on both past events and recent developments, the chapters cover issues such as the politics of health professionalism, clinical knowledge and organisation and management.
Each chapter offers a a unique combination of theory, historical detail and analysis of contemporary events. It features case studies to illustrate how policy has evolved and developed in recent years, and the implications these changes have for practice. Written in an accessible style the chapters also include comprehensive introductions, summaries and further reading sections.
Critical Practice in Health and Social Care
Paperback,
26/01/2000,
£36.99
£24.49
This major textbook will take a fresh look at professions and professionalism - what these terms mean and what they need to mean in the future in the health and social care field. This a course text for The Open University course Critical Practice in Health and Social Care (K302).
Health Policy and European Union Enlargement
Paperback,
01/04/2004,
£25.99
£18.19
While there may be consensus on the broader issues of the core objectives of the health care system, expectations differ between EU countries, and European national policy-makers. This book seeks firstly to assess the impact of the enlargement process and then to analyse the challenges that lie ahead in the field of health and health policy.
Purchasing to Improve Health Systems Performance
7,
01/03/2005,
£32.99
£23.09
This book addresses the gap of areas of the central role the purchasing function plays in many health system reforms and provides an up-to-date analysis of the evidence on different approaches to purchasing and support for policy-makers and practitioners as they formulate purchasing strategies.
Economics of Health Care Financing: The Visible Hand 2ed
Paperback,
26/08/2004,
£55.99
£37.79
This edition examines the economics of health care systems in a non-technical manner. It is written in a highly accessible manner for economists and non-economists alike. It is very timely and includes the latest evidence of health care reforms and their implications from a number of countries with different systems.
Environmental Health Policy
Paperback,
01/12/2006,
£28.99
£20.29
This book provides a multidisciplinary window onto environmental policy and its formulation., looking at the prominent position environmental health policy occupies, on both local and global agendas as old and new challenges confront the human race.
Critical Reflection in Health & Social Care
Paperback,
01/07/2006,
£28.99
£26.09
This book reflects the transformative potential of critical reflection and provides practitioners, students, educators and researchers with the key concepts and methods necessary to improve practice through effective critical reflection.
Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health
Paperback,
20/03/2007,
£36.99
£33.29
What, exactly, is promoting public health activity? How should we promote public health? Whose values are most important? Which theories can help inform health promoting practice? This text addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary public health.
Evidence-based Policy: A Realist Perspective
Paperback,
07/04/2006,
£39.99
£26.59
Looking at the spread of evidence-based policy making across the Western world, this book examines the methodological assumptions that lie behind this drive for government departments, academic research projects and NGOs to adopt an 'evidence-based' approach, when so little has been done to ask what works in an evidence-based context.
Health and Social Care Divide 2ed
7,
12/05/2004,
£22.99
£20.69
Improving partnership working between health and social care agencies has recently gained increased impetus as a result of New Labour's commitment to joined-up government. This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to policy and practice at the interface between health and social care.
Life Balance: Multidisciplinary Theories and Research
Hardback,
15/09/2009,
£57.95
£40.56
Addresses the various ways to conceptualize life balance as distinguishable among other positive state constructs. This book is suitable for occupational therapy and occupational science communities; professionals in wellness and holistic health; and those in psychology and sociology.
Public Health Mini-Guides: Alcohol Misuse
Paperback,
14/07/2014,
£9.99
£8.99
Focuses on the key public health issues identified by the UK government priorities. This title provides information on the priority areas of: obesity; smoking; alcohol misuse; sexual health; mental health; diabetes; non-communicable diseases; exercise; drug misuse; and health inequalities.
Nursing For Public Health
Paperback,
17/02/2011,
£28.99
£26.09
Nursing for Public Health reflects the growing need for all nurses to promote the health of patients as well as treating illnesses. This textbook examines core policies, theories, and models of public health, alongside nursing skills and interventions for health issues such as obesity, smoking and sexual health.
Public Health for the 21st Century: New Perspectives on Policy, Participation and Practice 2ed
Paperback,
01/02/2007,
£29.99
£26.99
Throughout this book, the authors analyse and reflect upon the influence of history, research and procedures upon contemporary public health practice. The text explores the debates surrounding the meaning of public health and looks at the policy changes that are reshaping its context.
Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses 2ed
Paperback,
05/09/2014,
£29.00
£26.10
Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses is a concise, accessible introduction to health promotion and public health for pre-registration nursing students and newly qualified nurses.
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