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“miranda thurston”

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  • Supporting Children and Families

    Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

    by Graham Bowpitt, Alison Edgley, Marjorie Finnigan, Brid Featherstone, Sarah Chaudhary, Mairi Ann Cullen, John Carpenter, Valerie Wigfall, Barbara Sianesi, Miranda Thurston, Alissa Goodman, Pamela Graham, Sharon Hodgson, Pauline Hall, Matthew Pearson, Susan McQuail, Nicky Nicholls, Ann Martin, Martin Manby, Lynn McKenna, Geoff Lindsay, Jill Jesson ...
    Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Key Themes in Public Health

    by Miranda Thurston ...
    ‘The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating. Miranda Thurston has succeeded in producing something which strikes the right note. It is wide ranging in scope without being superficial and is accessible to the young learner. It is a sort of 'Wiki'. Just what the aspiring public health practitioner ordered.’ – ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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