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  • Ageing and Health

    The Politics of Better Policies

    by Scott L. Greer, Julia Lynch, Aaron Reeves, Michelle Falkenbach, Jane Gingrich, Jonathan Cylus, Clare Bambra ...
    Series series European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
    One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies. Must ageing populations create conflict between generations and crisis for health systems? Our answer is no. The problem is not so much demographic change as the political and policy challenge of creating fair, sustainable and effective policies for people of all ages. This book, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Regimes of Inequality

    The Political Economy of Health and Wealth

    by Julia Lynch ...
    Since the 1990s, mainstream political parties have failed to address the problem of growing inequality, resulting in political backlash and the transformation of European party systems. Most attempts to explain the rise of inequality in political science take a far too narrow approach, considering only economic inequality and failing to recognize how multiple manifestations of inequality combine ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Getting Better

    The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities

    by Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch, Katherine E. Smith ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Health inequality has reached a crisis point. Your income or hometown can have a devastating impact on how well and how long you live. This injustice, exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, continues as the cost of living rises and other sources of inequity grow. What can be done to make things better?This book, written by the authors ... Read more

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  • The Unequal Pandemic

    COVID-19 and Health Inequalities

    by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Julia Lynch ...
    Rated as a top 10 book about the COVID-19 pandemic by New Statesman: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2021/07/best-books-about-covid-19-pandemicEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- NDIt has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’.This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal ... Read more

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  • Health Care in Canada

    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    by Katherine Fierlbeck ...
    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Oppression

    A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition

    by Elizabeth McGibbon ...
    In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The contributors to this volume insist that the key to tackling these structural ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Forty-five contributions from renowned international specialists in the field provide readers with expert analysis of the core issues related to the welfare state, including regional depictions of welfare states around the globe. The second edition of the Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State combines essays on methodologies, core concepts and central policy areas to produce a comprehensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • AGEING SOCIETIES

    by Sarah Harper ...
    Demographic ageing is a reality - within 25 years half the population of Western Europe will be over 50, one quarter over 65, and the Less Developed Countries will contain one billion elderly people. Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges and opportunities behind these figures.Ageing Societies explores three areas:§ the growing necessity for extending economic activity into later life ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Poverty

    by Bent Greve ...
    Series series The Basics
    Poverty has dire consequences on the ability to fulfil one’s aspirations for life. Poverty has strong implications for social cohesion and societies’ abilities to function in harmonious ways. This book presents the readers with the core concepts, latest development and knowledge about policies that work to eliminate absolute poverty.This volume shows what the consequences are for the quality of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Health Reform

    Public Success, Private Failure

    Edited by Daniel Drache, Terry Sullivan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    Health Reform explores the challenges facing health care provision in the advanced economies. The book exposes the limitations of market-led health reform and demonstrates the indispensable role of a vibrant public authority in the renewal of modern health care systems. Issues covered include:* cost-containment and privatisation strategies in an international perspective* the role of business and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Financial and Economic Crises and Their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being

    by Vicente Navarro, Carles Muntaner ...
    Series series Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
    This volume provides a timely collection of the most germane studies and commentaries on the complex links between recent changes in national economies, welfare regimes, social inequalities, and population health. Drs. Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner have selected 24 representative articles, organized around six themes, from the widely read pages of the International Journal of Health Services ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • How Politics Makes Us Sick

    Neoliberal Epidemics

    by T. Schrecker, C. Bambra ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD