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The Economics of Health and Health Care

The Economics of Health and Health Care

Folland Goodman and Stano’s bestselling The Economics of Health and Health Care text offers the market-leading overview of all aspects of Health Economics teaching through core economic themes rather than concepts unique to the health care economy. The Eighth Edition of this key textbook has been revised and updated throughout and reflects changes since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In addition to its revised treatment of health insurance the text also introduces the key literature on social capital as it applies to individual and public health as well as looking at public health initiatives relating to population health and economic equity and comparing numerous policies across Western countries China and the developing world. It provides up-to-date discussions on current issues as well as a comprehensive bibliography with over 1 100 references. Extra material and teaching resources are now also available through the brand new companion website which provides full sets of discussion questions exercises presentation slides and a test bank. This book demonstrates the multiplicity of ways in which economists analyze the health care system and is suitable for courses in Health Economics Health Policy/Systems or Public Health taken by health services students or practitioners.

GBP 170.00
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Health Economics

Health Economics

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics now in its sixth edition not only shows how this is done but also provides the tools to analyze the economic behavior of patients and providers in health care markets. Health Economics combines current economic theory recent research and up-to-date empirical studies into a comprehensive overview of the field. Key changes to this edition include: additional discussion of the consequences of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in light of current political changes; an extensive discussion of quality measures; more discussion of preventive services; a new section on drug markets and regulation; discussion of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs); new references problem sets and an updated companion website with lecture slides. Designed for use in upper-division undergraduate economics studies the book is suitable for students and lecturers in health economics microeconomics public health policy and practice and health and society. It is also accessible to professional students in programs such as public policy public health business and law.

GBP 160.00
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Ethical Health Care

Ethical Health Care

Offering a format that is significantly different than that offered by other books Ethical Health Care beings by asking what is meant by health and how it is achieved. The book then proceeds to explore with care and context the nature of the relationship between patients and clinicians health care providers and the societies in which they inhabit and finally the relationship between the health care enterprise and the international community. By emphasizing the ethical issues that arise in the broad quest to foster human health and appreciating that health is not primarily a function of medical interventions Ethical Health Care introduces students to problems such as the international distribution of pharmaceuticals and the dangers of reemerging infections. To a far greater extent than is done traditionally Ethical Health Care provides an interdisciplinary perspective to bioethics relying heavily upon the teachings of economics law and public health.

GBP 175.00
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Handbook of Health Psychology

Handbook of Health Psychology

This rich resource provides a thorough overview of current knowledge and new directions in the study of the biological psychological social and cultural factors that affect health health behavior and illness. Chapters review the latest theories and research with an emphasis on how research is translated into behavioral medicine interventions. Featuring contributions from top researchers and rising stars in the field authors provide a theoretical foundation; evaluate the empirical evidence; and make suggestions for future research clinical practice and policy. The handbook reflects the latest approaches to health psychology today including: Emphasis throughout on the socio-cultural aspects of health including socioeconomic status gender race/ethnicity sexual orientation and age/developmental stage A new section on emerging areas in health psychology including behavioral genomics military veterans' health and digital health Coverage of prevention interventions and treatment in the applications section An expansion of the biopsychosocial model across several levels of analysis including cultural macro-social and cellular factors Sustained emphasis on translating research into practice and policy The handbook considers the intersections of concepts (behavior change) populations (women's and sexual minority health) cultural groups (African American Asian American and Latino) risk and protective factors (obesity coping) and diseases (cancer diabetes HIV) making it essential reading for scholars of health psychology public health epidemiology and nursing. Novices to the field appreciate the accessibly written chapters while seasoned professionals appreciate the book's deep cutting-edge coverage. | Handbook of Health Psychology

GBP 105.00
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Public Health in Postcolonial Africa The Social and Political Determinants of Health

Public Health in Postcolonial Africa The Social and Political Determinants of Health

This fascinating multi-disciplinary collection examines how public health interventions in postcolonial Africa mirror wider manifestations of power in the region. Beyond the role of public health intervention in tackling disease and prolonging life the book measures the social and political determinants of health which continue to exist in the postcolonial era. The volume features contributions from scholars across both the social sciences and humanities exploring ongoing debates across a broad range of themes including: - Infopolitics biopolitics and healthcare. Emerging infectious diseases environment and food cultures. Health interventions and economic security. Church administration and healthcare. Livelihood sex sexuality and HIV/AIDS. Offering a fresh and insightful understanding of health issues in this important global region and including chapters on issues around the Covid-19 pandemic the book will interest students and researchers across a range of disciplines including global health politics and African studies. | Public Health in Postcolonial Africa The Social and Political Determinants of Health

GBP 130.00
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Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness

Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness

This book focuses on promoting health equity and addressing health disparities among Indigenous peoples of the United States (U. S. ) and associated Territories in the Pacific Islands and Caribbean. It provides an overview of the current state of health equity across social physical and mental health domains to provide a preliminary understanding of the state of Indigenous health equity. Part 1 of the book traces the promotive protective and risk factors related to Indigenous health equity. Part 2 reports promising pathways to achieving and transcending health equity through the description of interventions that address and promote wellness related to key outcomes. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work. | Indigenous Health Equity and Wellness

GBP 130.00
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Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures

Environmental health law is a wide-ranging detailed and complex body of law within the UK. Bassett’s Environmental Health Procedures is an established and essential reference source which provides an accessible entry into enforcement and administrative procedures for environmental health. The main legal procedures used in the environmental health field are presented as flow charts supported by explanatory text. This ninth edition refines the structure introduced in the eighth edition with each chapter addressing a single topic. It has introduced the titles of the corresponding legislation in Scotland and Northern Ireland where there is such legislation. The book has been updated throughout to reflect new practices legislation and statutory guidance. Specifically the ninth edition contains new content on antisocial behaviour and significant updates to sections on: Enforcement and administration Environmental protection Food safety Housing Public health. Environmental health officers/practitioners and students will find this book invaluable. It will also be an essential reference for all those whose responsibilities demand they keep abreast of current environmental health practices. | Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures

GBP 150.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication

A seminal text in the field this new edition of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication provides students and scholars with a comprehensive survey of the subject’s key research foundations and trends authored by the discipline’s leading scholars. The third edition has been completely updated and reorganized to guide both new researchers and experienced scholars through the most critical and contemporary topics in health communication today. There are eight major sections covering a range of issues including interpersonal and family health communication; patient-provider communication; healthcare provider and organizational health communication; mediated health communication; campaigns interventions and technology applications; and broad issues such as health literacy health equity and intercultural communication. Attention also is devoted to foundational issues in health communication such as theory and method; multidisciplinary interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary communication research; research translation implementation and dissemination; and narrative health communication. There is new attention to policy and NGOs the environment public health crises global health mental health and mental illness and marginalized populations such as Black Latinx (a/o) Native/First People and LGBTQ+ individuals as well as the multiple challenges health communication researchers face in conducting research. The handbook will continue to serve as an invaluable resource for students researchers scholars policymakers and healthcare professionals doing work in health communication.

GBP 105.00
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Daylighting Architecture and Health

Daylighting Architecture and Health

Daylighting Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health considering both psychological and physiological issues and bringing together a range of research in the field. As we are becoming increasingly conscious of global warming and pushing towards energy efficiency in buildings the book examines the question of daylighting from the perspective of the health of building occupants. It gathers and reviews all the latest and pertinent medical and architectural research related to natural light or lack thereof and its effect on people. Documents medical research findings which establish a link between light quality and health Considers design strategies for increasing daylight in buildings Develops understanding and awareness of the importance of natural light in buildings. Daylighting Architecture and Health: Building Design Strategies is a timely and essential text for professional architects and all others concerned with the effects of daylighting on health architecture and building design.

GBP 175.00
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Public Health Nutrition From principles to practice

Public Health Nutrition From principles to practice

A ground breaking text in the developing field of public health nutrition. 'from the foreword by Basil S. Hetzel At last! A book that approaches public health nutrition in a scholarly scientific and evidence based manner that at the same time delivers the practical competencies and skills required by the professional Public Health Nutritionist. 'Elizabeth Belton Senior Lecturer School of Life Sciences The Robert Gordon University. How can the nutritional health of populations be improved through action at local national and global levels? The work of public health nutritionists is to bring population-wide perspectives to the relationship between food and health. Systematically drawing on international research in Public Health Nutrition leading international practitioners present both the theoretical underpinnings and applied nature of the field of public health nutrition. The book is peer reviewed and divided into four sections:* Principles - presents conceptual frameworks solutions responsibilities and outcome measures philosophical and evidential dimensions standards and dietary guidelines. * Populations - explores groups for whom nutrition is especially relevant providing analysis of the food and health relationship from physiological social cultural political and economic perspectives. * Priorities - examines key issues including vulnerable populations obesity indigenous nutrition international nutrition the nutritional transition food system trends and sustainability. * Practices - covers professional skills for public health practitioners including monitoring the food and nutrition situation of populations physical activity research skills project management professional practice health promotion and communication policy and politics. Public Health Nutrition is an essential resource for public health practitioners researchers and administrators as well as students of nutrition dietetics and public health wishing to obtain advanced and specialised competencies. | Public Health Nutrition From principles to practice

GBP 130.00
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Health Policy in the Market State

Health Policy in the Market State

At a time of increasing demands on budgets governments around the world are seeking to reduce health expenditure and introduce market-oriented reforms to the health sector. This is leading to profound shifts in the relationship between the state and the individual as policy makers dismantle the welfare state and move towards a user-pays sytem. Health Policy in the Market State offers an overview of health policy in Australia locating it within the broader context of power and interests analysis and shifts in government policy and public sector restructuring. It outlines the key issues in current health policy and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of specific policies and programs. Contributors include Ian Anderson and Maggie Brady Mary Draper Stephen Duckett Liz Eckerman Sophie Hill Sharon Moore Michael Muetzelfeldt Janine Smith and Beth Wilson. Health Policy in the Market State is a valuable overview for students as well as a comprehensive reference for health professionals and policy-makers.

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services

Handbook of Forensic Mental Health Services focuses on assessment treatment and policy issues regarding juveniles and adults in the criminal and civil systems. Uniquely this volume is designed for professionals who deliver mental health services rather than researchers. Just like its parent series its goal revolves around improving the quality of mental health care services in forensic settings. It achieves this by integrating the findings related to clinical practice administration and policy from trends and best practice internationally that mental health professionals can implement.

GBP 105.00
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The Business of Health New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World

The Business of Health New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of healthcare business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia Europe and the US it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry. Health and medicine have developed as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy around the world during the twentieth century. However very little is known about the conditions of their transformation in a big globalized business. This book discusses the development of health industries tackling the various activities in manufacturing (drugs biotechnology medical devices etc. ) infrastructure (hospital design and construction) and services (nursing care insurances hospital management etc. ) in relation to healthcare. The business history of health carried out in this book offers a systemic perspective that includes the producers (companies) practitioners (medical doctors) and users (patients and hospitals) of medical technology as well as the providers of capital and the bodies responsible for regulating the health system (government). The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Business History. | The Business of Health New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World

GBP 130.00
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Equity in Global Health Research

Equity in Global Health Research

This thoughtful book offers unique insights on global health research drawing attention to the equity choices embedded in day-to-day patterns and assumptions that shape how people do think about and navigate research. It invites readers to position equity as the driving principle and purpose of this field and presents a plethora of examples that demonstrate how to navigate the complex work of centring equity in research. This book provides foundational content on the standards of guiding equity considerations in global health with chapters adopting cross-disciplinary methods of engaging in equity thinking and doing. Chapters explore applications of six distinct elements of the CCGHR Principles for Global Health Research including partnering authentically embracing inclusion sharing benefits committing to the future acting on causes of inequities and practicing humility. Each chapter is accompanied with engaging reflection questions. This book is a pivotal resource for those who perform use or support global equity health research. It will appeal to students researchers policy makers professionals and funders as well as those with an interest in and commitment to centring equity in their approaches to doing using or supporting health research. | Equity in Global Health Research

GBP 130.00
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Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety. Fully updated to the April 2015 specification the revision guide provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks helping readers to learn and memorise the most important topics. Throughout the book the guide links back to the Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction textbook helping students to consolidate their learning. · Small and portable making it ideal for use anywhere: at home in the classroom or on the move · Suggests useful tips on study and examination technique · Includes practice questions and answers based on NEBOSH exam questions · Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference The Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide written by the renowned health and safety author and former NEBOSH Vice Chairman Ed Ferrett will be an invaluable tool for students as they prepare for their NEBOSH exam and for their subsequent health and safety work. | Health and Safety in Construction Revision Guide for the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety

GBP 175.00
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The Administration of Health Systems Comparative Perspectives

The Administration of Health Systems Comparative Perspectives

In the late 1960s American society entered a period of rapidly accelerating social change. Certainty that U. S. vast scientific and technical capability would be able to find solutions to all problems began to turn to concern as organizational efforts were unable to keep pace with new developments in a variety of areas. The health field with its focus on the well-being of individuals felt the impact of these changes particularly strongly. Medicines became more focused on isolated health practices as the patient's needs were attended to within groups of unrelated biological systems. The emerging thought represented in this collection pushes for the perception of health as a right rather than as something to be earned. It argues that deprivation of life-saving and life-fulfilling opportunities to any populations should not be tolerated. The editors also demand more awareness of the implications of isolated health activities and make the case for a comprehensive total health care system. Health is no longer just a biological function; quality of life is also a concern. First published in 1971 by administrators of health agencies teachers and health personnel this work presents perspectives on problems and interpretations of forces and issues that are of continuing importance to health administrators. The emphasis on the need to focus on the whole patient rather than just their illness and on providing them with a good life not just a disease free one is still as valid today as it was when this volume was initially published. | The Administration of Health Systems Comparative Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Health Promotion Principles and practice in the Australian context

Health Promotion Principles and practice in the Australian context

'An excellent introduction to the theory and practice of health promotion in a developed country such as Australia'From the foreword by Professor Brian OldenburgThis widely used text offers a comprehensive overview of the field of health promotion. Drawing on current Australian and international research the authors provide a detailed review of health promotion principles. They demonstrate how these principles fit into the broader public health context and how they can be integrated into practice in a range of settings including the workplace schools rural communities Indigenous communities and health care organisations. The authors also include a step-by-step guide to program management from planning to evaluation. This third edition includes new material on the use of evidence in health promotion practice and on the increasing importance of an ecological perspective. The text has been fully revised with new data and case studies and planning models have been updated to reflect current practice. Health Promotion is an essential text for students and a valuable resource for health professionals. | Health Promotion Principles and practice in the Australian context

GBP 130.00
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Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

Personal Safety for Health Care Workers

This book is aimed at employers managers and professional and administrative staff in the health care services. GP practices home visits and the hospital are all covered. Despite growing evidence of violence against health care workers some employers have been slow to acknowledge the risks faced in both primary and secondary health care settings. Personal Safety for Health Care Workers provides the tools to investigate the risks involved and to develop policy and practice to ensure staff safety. It also deals with the vexed question of under-reporting. Part I deals with the respective roles and responsibilities of employers and employees and offers guidance on developing a workplace personal safety policy. Workplace design and management are addressed and guidelines provided for health care workers when away from their normal work base. Part 2 gives detailed guidelines for use by individual workers in a variety of work situations. Part 3 considers training issues and contains a number of sample training programmes with handouts. The message of this book is that prevention is better than cure - proper attention to risk can reduce both the incidence of aggression and its development into violent acts. The aim is to achieve the dual effect of protecting health care workers and also of providing services in a more sensitive way. Good practice implies a responsibility to ensure that health care can be delivered in conditions of safety for staff and patients alike.

GBP 175.00
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A History of the Mental Health Services

A History of the Mental Health Services

First published in 1972 A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959 and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970. The story starts with the first legislative mention of the ‘furiously and dangerously mad’ as a class for whom some treatment should be provided traces the development of reform and experiment in the nineteenth century and the creation of the asylum system and ends in the age of Goffman and Laing and Szasz with the virtual disappearance of the system. The book will be of interest to students of mental health sociology social policy health policy and law.

GBP 115.00
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Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

'An invaluable resource for social workers in all practice settings not just mental health and a core text for social work students. ' - Dr Valerie Gerrand former AASW representative and board member of the Mental Health Council of Australia'An outstanding and very original contribution to the scholarship on mental health policy research and service. ' - Associate Professor Maria Harries AM University of Western AustraliaDeveloping the skills to work effectively with people who have mental health problems is fundamental to contemporary social work practice. Practitioners face new challenges in a rapidly changing work environment including working with consumers and their families and in multidisciplinary teams. Now more than ever social workers need discipline-specific mental health knowledge and training. This second edition of Social Work Practice in Mental Health continues the guiding principles of the first edition - an emphasis on the centrality of the lived experience of mental illness and the importance of embracing both scientific and relational dimensions of practice. The new edition reflects the latest developments in best practice including the emergence of recovery theory and the importance of evidence-based approaches. This is a comprehensive guide to social work practice in specialist mental health settings as well as in other fields of practice covering the most commonly encountered mental health problems. It features information on assessment case management family work and community work and reveals how the core concerns of social work - human rights self-determination and relationships with family and the wider community - are also central to mental health practice. | Social Work Practice in Mental Health An introduction

GBP 130.00
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Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana 1920-1982

Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana 1920-1982

This book investigates the history of women’s reproductive health in Ghana arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s it was largely driven by discourses of development and population control rather than a concern for women’s health or rights. Between the 1920s and 1980s the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods this book demonstrates that whilst the substance of development discourse shifted over time principles of development continued to be used to impact and legitimise reproductive health policy and practices well after independence. The book explores Ghana’s pluralist health system the introduction of maternal and child welfare the dominance of the Red Cross in Ghana’s maternal and child health landscape nationalist pronatalism and global population activism. In order to understand how global iterations of development and health policy impacted ordinary lives in Ghana the author uses evidence from multiple ‘levels ’ including private papers national archives and records of international and transnational organisations. Providing balanced archival perspectives the book includes extensive oral history interviews carried out with both rural Ghanaian women and traditional birth attendants as well as with midwives doctors and family planning fieldworkers. This book will have an important impact on a number of historical fields including Ghanaian history global health history global histories of population and family planning and histories of development. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the history of public health development Africa Ghana and gender. | Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana 1920-1982

GBP 120.00
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Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. Competing models of development with different political ideologies and economic enterprises increasingly influenced Asian countries in their efforts to build modern nations after World War II. Looking at examples from China Japan South and North Korea India and Indonesia the contributors to this volume look at how a range of Asian countries handled this postcolonial challenge. Health became a pivotal area that sustained the political discourse of differentiating one type of society from the other and promoting each system’s advantages over the other’s during the Cold War. Central to the discourse of a just society and the well-being of citizens was the promotion of public health and welfare for the people. The right to health was considered a fundamental human right as well as an essential social justice. A healthy population was also a prerequisite for national economic prosperity. Public health in postwar Asia was therefore a sociopolitical matter as well as a concern for the well-being of individuals. The health of the people demonstrated the advancement of a nation and provided the insurance for economic productivity and national prosperity. An essential read for historians and policymakers of public health and historians of Asia during the Cold War. | Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

GBP 130.00
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Health Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey Bodies of Exception

Health Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey Bodies of Exception

Health Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey offers readers fresh insight into Turkish modernity and its discourse on health what it excludes and how these potentialities manifest themselves in women’s fiction to shape the imagination of the period. Starting from the nineteenth century health gradually became a focal topic in relation to the future of the empire and later the Republic. Examining representations of health and illness in nationalist romances melodramas and modernist works this book will explore diseases such as syphilis tuberculosis and cancer and their representation in the literary imagination as a tool to discuss anxieties over cultural transformation. This book places Turkish literature in the field of health humanities and identifies the discourse on health as a key component in the making of the Turkish nation-building ideology. By focusing on the place of health and illness in canonical and non-canonised fiction it opens a new field in Turkish literary studies. | Health Literature and Women in Twentieth-Century Turkey Bodies of Exception

GBP 120.00
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Social Problems and Mental Health

Social Problems and Mental Health

First published in 1987 Social Problems and Mental Health presents a sophisticated response to the whole question of what constitutes a social problem with nearly fifty entries giving a range of perspectives on the main problem issues of our age. Also included are useful suggestions for further reading. Entries cover areas of concern connected with physical and mental health poverty crime and violence family and social relationships sexuality and so on. The book provides succinct descriptions of various areas of concern with historical backgrounds. Both casual readers and students of sociology and psychology will find the book useful.

GBP 89.99
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