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“katherine e smith”

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  • Health Inequalities

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Katherine E. Smith, Clare Bambra, Sarah E. Hill ...
    Informed by a wealth of available research, between 1997 and 2010, the UK Labour government introduced a raft of policies to reduce health inequalities. Despite this, by most measures, the UK's health inequalities have continued to widen. This failure has prompted calls for new approaches to health inequalities research and some consensus that public health researchers ought to be more actively ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social Determinants of Health

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Inequality and Wellbeing

    by Charles West, Paul Burstow, Gayle Munro, Amy Greer Murphy, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Clare Bambra, Nigel Hewett, Sara da Silva Ramos, Michael Oddy, Claire Luscombe, Nick Maguire, Neil Hamlet, Steve Coles, Jean Hannah, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Barbara McIntosh, Claire Bonham, Nathan Critchlow, Naomi Brooks, Jenny Svanberg, Katherine Brown, Jon Foster, Katherine E. Smith, Rosalind Fallaize, Julie Lovegrove, Andrew Parnham, Kristin Kerr ...
    This book provides an applied, interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of the key social determinants of health, essential at a time of increasing inequalities and reductions in existing NHS services and local authority budgets.A person's health and wellbeing is influenced by a spectrum of socioeconomic, cultural, living and working conditions, social and community networks and lifestyle ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • The Impact Agenda

    Controversies, Consequences and Challenges

    by Katherine E. Smith, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Nasar Meer, Ellen Stewart, Richard Watermeyer ...
    Measuring research impact and engagement is a much debated topic in the UK and internationally. This book is the first to provide a critical review of the research impact agenda, situating it within international efforts to improve research utilisation. Using empirical data, it discusses research impact tools and processes for key groups such as academics, research funders, ‘knowledge brokers’ and ... Read more

    $38.69 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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    The Scandal of Our Times

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    Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • 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

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  • An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care

    Edited by Diana Guzys, Rhonda Brown, Elizabeth Halcomb, Dean Whitehead ...
    Community and primary health care nursing is a rapidly growing field. Founded on the social model of health, the primary health care approach explores how social, environmental, economic and political factors affect the health of the individual and communities, and the role of nurses and other health care practitioners in facilitating an equitable and collaborative health care process. An ... Read more

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  • More Harm Than Good

    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Mental Health

    A Person-centred Approach

    Edited by Nicholas Procter, Rhonda L. Wilson, Helen P. Hamer, Denise McGarry, Mark Loughhead ...
    Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach equips students with the tools they need to provide exceptional person-focused care when supporting improved mental health of diverse communities.The third edition has been updated and restructured to provide a more logical and comprehensive guide to mental health practice. It includes new chapters on trauma-informed care, different mental health conditions ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

  • Social Injustice and Public Health

    by Barry S. Levy;Victor W. Sidel;Marian Wright Edelman ...
    Two past presidents of the American Public Health Association have edited this book on the ways in which social injustice causes and contributes to public health problems. Their previous books War and Public Health and errorism and Public Health both dealt with specific issues of social injustice as they relate to public health. The current book addresses a broader set of issues in a more ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Contexts of Nursing

    An Introduction

    by John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson ...
    - Content updated to reflect national registration and standards for practice of the NMBA and NCNZ - 'Stories' throughout – featuring case studies on chapter content - Reflection points throughout the chapters to encourage personal reflection - New chapters, including:- Nursing and social media- Health disparities: the social determinants of health- Mental health promotion- Global health and ... Read more

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