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  • HEALTH POLICY

    by Ann Wall, Barry Owen ...
    Series series The Gildredge Social Policy Series
    The health care system in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century is being subjected to radical rethinking. Health Policy examines how the NHS has developed to the point it has reached today as well as placing it in the wider context of the kinds of health care which are available to people in Britain. It looks at key issues which have arisen in the provision of health care such as ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

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  • Public Health

    Cholera to the Coalition

    by Dorling, Danny ...
    The first digital-only ebook taster of Unequal health: The scandal of our times by Danny Dorling. Competitively priced, it gives a flavour of one of the major themes: public health and contains three chapters from the book, preceded by an all-new introduction specially written by Danny Dorling. This ‘must-read’ will introduce an even wider readership to his work. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Understanding the Australian Health Care System - E-Book

    by Eileen Willis, MEd, PhD ...
    A updated overview of Australia’s health care system, addressing its core features, concepts and issuesUnderstanding the Australian Health Care System, 2nd edition is an excellent university book for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike.Published four years after the original, this second edition has been fully revised to reflect major Australian health care reform. Its fully up-to-date ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    Edited by John Hogan, Paul F. Donnelly, Brendan K. O'Rourke ...
    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $20.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Promoting Health

    The Primary Health Care Approach

    by Lyn Talbot, Glenda Verrinder ...
    The new edition will provide readily accessible material for public health educators and practitioners, in a number of professions, who are increasingly being required to address the challenges emerging from the inter-related impacts of the social and environmental factors impacting on health in an era of globalisation. ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Adult Social Care

    Edited by Iain Ferguson, Michael Lavalette ...
    Series series Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work
    Adult social care in Britain has been at the centre of much media and public attention in recent years. Revelations of horrific abuse in learning disability settings, the collapse of major private care home providers, abject failures of inspection and regulation, and uncertainty over how long-term care of older people should be funded have all given rise to serious public concern. In this short ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Other Invisible Hand

    Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition

    by Julian Le Grand, Alain Enthoven ...
    How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive to their users, and inequitable in their distribution. In this book, Julian Le Grand argues that the ... Read more

    $52.59 USD

  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing

    Edited by Lesley Coles, Elizabeth Porter ...
    Series series Transforming Public Health Practice Series
    As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the delivery of healthcare.The book is divided into two sections, with section one covering a strategic ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Leadership in the Public Sector

    Promises and Pitfalls

    Edited by Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Mike Dent ...
    In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme. This edited volume brings together a host of material from the public sector to analyze the issue internationally.Teelken, Dent & Ferlie lead a team of contributors in examining three key aspects of this increasingly important theme:the meaning of public sector leadership, and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Health Activism

    Foundations and Strategies

    by Glenn Laverack ...
    Activism is action on behalf of a cause, action that goes beyond what is conventional or routine and is relative to the actions by others.Health activism is a growing area of interest for many who work to improve health at both national and international levels because it offers a more direct approach to achieve lasting social and political change. This book, for the first time, provides a clear ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Social Work and Poverty

    A Critical Approach

    by Lester Parrott ...
    Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty.First, it situates social work and poverty within a historical context, then analyses definitions and theories of poverty along with their importance in enabling anti-oppressive practice with service users. It goes on to evaluate the ... Read more

    $44.09 USD