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  • No Small Matter: The Impact of Poverty Shocks and Human Capital Investments in Early Childhood Development

    by Alderman,Harold ...
    Education is often seen as a fundamental means to improve economic prospects for individuals from low income settings. However even with increased emphasis on basic education for all many individuals fail to achieve basic skills to succeed in life. The book presents evidence that one core reason is that by the time a child is old enough to attend school there is already a wide disparity in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health

    Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems

    Edited by Teresa L. Scheid, Eric R. Wright ...
    With chapters written by leading scholars and researchers, the third edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides an updated, comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. The volume presents an overview of the historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness. Part I examines the social factors that shape psychiatric diagnosis ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Homelessness & Health in Canada

    Edited by Manal Guirguis-Younger, Stephen W. Hwang, Ryan McNeil ...
    Series series Health and Society
    Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice recommendations to respond to the ongoing public health crisis.This book is divided into three distinct but ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The First Three Years and Beyond

    Brain Development and Social Policy

    by Professor Edward F. Zigler, Matia Finn-Stevenson, Nancy W. Hall ...
    Series series Current Perspectives in Psychology
    How much do children’s early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent’s role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from the social sciences and studies on the brain to answer these questions and to explore what they mean ... Read more

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  • The Promise Of Early Childhood Development In Latin America

    by Vegas Emiliana; Santibanez Lucrecia ...
    Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The deleterious effects of poor early childhood development outcomes can be long-lasting, affecting school attainment, employment, wages, criminality, and social integration of adults.The authors first take stock ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Population Mental Health

    Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

    Edited by Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    First Published in 2012. The past 150 years have seen dramatic and continuing improvements in health and life expectancy. In the last century alone. Formulating a 21st century public health agenda to address the increasing burden of chronic diseases worldwide will require the same innovation and perseverance. Split into three sections, the first highlights the public health significance of mental ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Linda George ...
    Series series Handbooks of Aging
    Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Seventh Edition, provides extensive reviews and critical evaluations of research on the social aspects of aging. It also makes available major references and identifies high-priority topics for future research. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 reviews developments in the field of age and the life course (ALC) studies and presents guidelines ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Disability, Health and Human Development

    by Sophie Mitra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with ... Read more

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  • From Early Child Development to Human Development: Investing in Our Children's Future

    by Young,Mary Eming ...
    It is never too early to become involved but it can easily be too late.'Armed with such alarming statistics as 125 million primary-school age children are not in school; another 150 million children drop out of primary school before they complete four years of education; and almost one-half of the children in the least developed countries of the world do not have access to primary education; the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Challenges of Living

    A Multidimensional Working Model for Social Workers

    by Leanne Wood, Elizabeth D. Hutchison, Holly C. Matto, Marcia P. Harrigan, Pamela A. Viggiani ...
    This timely text draws on interdisciplinary theory and research to examine the multidimensional risk and protective factors for eight challenges of living frequently encountered by social workers. The authors provide a working model for social workers to integrate the most up-to-date evidence about challenges of living they face in their daily practice. Using a multidimensional biopsychosocial ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Education

    Edited by Stephen J. Machin, Ludger Woessmann, Eric A. Hanushek ...
    Series Book 4 - Handbook of the Economics of Education
    What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations help make sense of the investments and returns associated with education. Volume editors Eric A ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Social Perspective

    The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice

    by Richard U'Ren ...
    Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder ... Read more

    $43.99 USD