Public Health Communication
by Claudia Parvanta, David E Nelson, and Richard N Harner
Building Bridges
by Donna Keyser, Ellen Burke Beckjord, Ray Firth, Sarah Frith, and Susan L. Lovejoy
Puppet on a String (Hodder Christian paperbacks)
by Helena Wilkinson
The Sociology of Medicine (Prentice-Hall foundations of modern sociology)
by Renee C. Fox
Provides a social, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspective on health, illness, and medicine. Analyzes first-hand, participant observer-based, qualitative studies in the field.
For over forty years Wolf Wolfensberger has been a significant figure in the world of human services, especially in the field of learning disability. His work on normalization and citizen advocacy in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been acknowledged by supporters and critics alike to have been fundamental to developments in a number of countries, most notably his adopted country, and the USA, Canada, Australasia, and the UK. His further work in developing the theory of social role valorizatio...
Perspectives on Research in Emotional Stress
by Detlev Ganten, Nicola A. Nikolov, and K.V. Sudakov
First Published in 1989. Based on the updated proceedings of the Soviet-American International Pavlovian Conference held in Moscow, this volume presents a new trend in the systems analysis of emotional stress as an outcome of behavioural conflict situations in which the subjects fail to achieve a useful end result. The mechanisms, complications, prevention and behavioural therapy of emotional stress are examined. While almost any of the body functional systems can be involved, psychosomatic and...
The Sociology of Medicine and Illness
by Richard A. Kurtz and H.Paul Chalfant
A Concise History of British Social Policy Since the Second World War (The Gildredge Social Policy)
by Robert Page and Richard Silburn
This accessible introduction to British social policy from 1940 to the present day focuses on key developments during that period. Organised chronologically, by government, it provides readers with and opportunity to compare and contrast the policies of successive governments.
Developing the Child with Down's Syndrome (Resources in Education)
by Joyce Mepsted
First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surveys the various departments including The Board of Education and The Home Office. The book discusses motives, principles, and results of reform in the sector and gives a history of public health services. Other chapters include those on public health as a career, poor law and public health administration, and health insurance.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK IN HEALTH CARE TODAY Obamacare and the changes it brings could save our primary care doctors from extinction. Or it could crush them. Imagine health care without your Familiar Physician. Every time you're sick, you're a stranger, enduring long waits for medical treatment from someone who may never have seen you before. This is what the future could look like ... because there's a tempest bearing down on primary care medicine. It's powered by frustrated doctors retiri...
The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging
by Susan Rodiek
Discover the physical and mental benefits of outdoor spaces for the elderly The Role of the Outdoors in Residential Environments for Aging presents new insights on the positive role nature and the outdoors can play in the lives of older adults, whether they live in the community, in an assisted-living environment, or in a skilled nursing facility. Current research suggests that increased contact and activity levels with the outdoors can be an important therapeutic resource for the elderly, with...
Practice Success! the Physician's Guide to Survival & Success in Medical Practice