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  • Health Studies

    An Introduction

    Edited by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health. With chapters including epidemiology, psychology, human and environmental geography, and anthropology, it is the only book to explore in one volume all of the core disciplines that contribute to understanding health. It illustrates how the complexity of health problems such as obesity ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • International Handbook of Health Literacy

    Research, Practice and Policy across the Life-Span

    by Christina Wieczorek, Josefine Wangdahl, Gillian Rowlands, Diana Sahrai, Tetine Sentell, Connie Arnold, James Davis, Opal Vanessa Buchthal, Elizabeth McFarlane, Phillip Massey, Jennifer Manganello0, Terry Davis1, Ruth Pitt2, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer3, Barbara K Kondilis4, Melanie Messer5, Evelyn McElhinney6, Vanessa Rawlings7, Emma Bond8, Ullrich Bauer9, Paulo Pinheiro1, Leena Paakkari3, Olli Paakkari4, Carla White5, Susan Reid6, Robert Vann (R.V) Rikard7, Julie McKinney8, Sarity Dodson9, Emma Fitzsimon0, Anita Trezona1, Marlene Sator2, Christina Dietscher3, Peter Nowak4, Lorie Donelle5, Linda Shohet6, Irving Rootman7, Sandra Vamos8, Andrew Pearson9, Phyllis Easton0, Blythe Robertson1, Graham Kramer2, Jany Rademakers3, Monique Heijmans4, Iris van der Heide5, Maricel G Santos6, Phil Michael Rehder7, Stefanie Harsch8, Dirk Bruland9, Patricia Wahl0, Kathrin Schulze1, Anne Konring Larsen2, Marie Birk Jørgensen3, Theckla Kwangsa Mbunwe4, Kenneth Yongabi Anchang5, Sarah Marshall6, Suzanne McCarthy7, Laura J Sahm8, Catina O’Leary9, Richard Carmona0, Caitlin Maish1, Kristen Haven Griffin2, Alyssia Rossetto3, Kathryn Cairns4, Isabella Bertschi5, Deborah L Begoray6, E. Anne Marshall7, Marlies Casteleijn8, Paola Ardiles9, Eva Maria Bitzer0, Thomas Mößle1, Anja Stiller2, Lea Kuntz3, Simone Flaig4, Bronwyn McGill5, Hanna Schwendemann6, Paula Bleckmann7, Don Nutbeam8, Diane Levin-Zamir9, Luis Saboga-Nunes1, Joanne Protheroe2, Jane Wills3, Susie Sykes4, Eva-Maria Berens5, Doris Schaeffer6, Dominique Vogt7, Nicola Diviani8, Sarah Mantwill9, Stephan van den Broucke0, Kristin Ganahl1, Jürgen M Pelikan2, Susanne Jordan3, Olga Domanska4, Christiane Firnges5, Torsten Michael Bollweg6, Andrew Pleasant7, Anthony Francis Jorm8, Graca S Carvalho9, Janine Broder00 ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for ... Read more

    $88.19 USD

  • The power of pragmatism

    Knowledge production and social inquiry

    Edited by Jane Wills, Robert Lake ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and experimental. Drawing from both classical and neo-pragmatist perspectives, the book advances a ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Foundations for Health Promotion - E-Book

    Foundations for Health Promotion - E-Book

    by Jane Wills ...
    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
    This hugely popular textbook provides a broad-based and user-friendly introduction to health promotion and its use in practice. Written by Professor Jane Wills, the book takes the reader through health promotion theory, strategy and methods, settings and implementation. It is clearly structured and accessibly written, with a discursive style that will appeal to readers of all levels and sufficient ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Health Promotion for Nurses

    Edited by Jane Wills ...
    Series series Fundamentals
    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. Promoting the health and wellbeing of patients is a vital part of the nursing role, and the updated second edition of this user-friendly book discusses the foundations for health promotion practice using practical ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Geographies of Economies

    Edited by Roger Lee, Jane Wills ...
    Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers.Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultural and social constitution of economic geographies, processes of globalisation and new forms of political regulation and practice. Although focusing upon 'new' ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Health Studies

    An Introduction

    This new edition of a very successful textbook provides an up-to-date, broad and authoritative introduction to studying health. With chapters including biology, epidemiology, anthropology, politics and psychology, it is the only book to explore all the major disciplines and highlight how they can contribute to our understanding of health in one single volume.Comprehensive, accessible and written ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Dissident Geographies

    An Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice

    Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Locating Localism

    Statecraft, Citizenship and Democracy

    by Jane Wills ...
    Locating localism explores the development of localism as a new mode of statecraft and its implications for the practice of citizenship. Drawing on original research, Jane Wills highlights the importance of having the civic infrastructure and capacity to facilitate the engagement of citizens in local decision making. She looks at the development of community organising, neighbourhood planning and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Union Retreat and the Regions

    The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour

    Series series Regions and Cities
    Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
    This package provides you with the book plus the eBook – giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your ... Read more

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  • Global Cities At Work

    New Migrant Divisions of Labour

    This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the twenty-first century.This book breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant ... Read more

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