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The Diabetes LIFEMAP
The Diabetes LIFEMAP transforms the old model of physician centered care to personalized patient focused, data-driven diabetes care for the 21st century.
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Life to the Years
Rare is the family untouched by heart disease. In the not too distant past treatment consisted of little more than making the patient comfortable, and was accompanied by a dependence on family. Cardiac care is now geared to restoring the patient to a vigorous, productive life, in many cases mor...
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Delivering WOW
Delivering WOW is a step-by-step blueprint for running and growing a dental practice.
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The Foundation of Profitable Dentistry
A complete guide to building and sustaining a profitable dental practice.
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Agile Implementation
A proven method for implementing sustainable change to improve healthcare delivery.
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Our Health Plan
The antidote for a broken healthcare system, where the power of one community revolutionizes the way healthcare works.
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Winning the War on Cancer
In Winning the War on Cancer the daughter of revolutionary French cancer researcher, Mirko Beljanski, outlines her journey of learning about her father’s discoveries, and ensuring his legacy is available to all those struggling with the disease today.
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The Nightingale Gene
The first in a trilogy highlighting caregiving as a demanding, yet rewarding, profession that forces work-life imbalance, The Nightingale Gene provides lessons for those who make caring for others a priority over taking care of themselves.
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Nifty Thrifty Dentists
Nifty Thrifty Dentists provides a simple three-part formula any dentist can use to build the dental practice of their dreams. Whether they’re looking to build a highly profitable yet fulfilling lifestyle practice, grow to a more entrepreneurial practice, or build into a large single- or multiple-...
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Migraines and Epilepsy
This book brings together natural tools that help to heal the brain and rid the sufferer of debilitating migraines or seizures.
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7 Caregiver Landmines
7 Caregiver Landmines equips family caregivers to live a healthier, calmer, and even more joyful life.
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The Joyful Caregiver
The Joyful Caregiver reveals The Graceful Process™ to help caregivers live a more fulfilling life.
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Awaken Your Medical Intuition
Awaken Your Medical Intuition helps healthcare professionals use their intuitive gift to make a difference in the world.
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The Same Day Dentistry Revolution
A crystal clear guide to building a profitable and efficient dental practice.
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Mind Over Bladder
The trusted and informative guidebook for bladder control, written with respect and humor by a nationally known urogynecologist, revised and expanded for the 21st century woman.
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The Doctor Dilemma
A readable and timely book that gives physicians tools to fight burnout.
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Death and Dollars
Death and Dollars: Solving the Epidemic of Chronic Disease provides insight into how to use technology to empower patients in order to reverse and prevent the health crisis of the 21st century—chronic disease.
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Your Script for Hope
Your Script for Hope helps people who have received a devastating, ultimate diagnosis through this uncertain time with self-determination and love.
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Paindemic
Paindemic is a physician’s unbridled depiction of America’s chronic pain epidemic, the truth about our medical system, and what patients can do to approach their pain in a more rational and helpful way.
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Open Your Mouth!
An immensely readable book showing Baby Boomers how to maximize invested time, procedures, and cost at the dental office and how to choose the right dentist for their needs.
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Remarkable Caregiving
Remarkable Caregiving is a compilation of stories from six caregivers, thrust into unplanned circumstances and emerging wiser and more resilient.
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On trial
The book explores the early days of industry-sponsored clinical research in psychiatry. Examining how the clinic, patients, doctors, nursing staff, corporations, and authorities interacted, it reconstructs the experimental practices in a psychiatric hospital from 1940-80 whilst telling a larger s...
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Night Brilliance
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 50-70 million adults in the United States experience chronic sleep deprivation. The average American sleeps for only 5.7 hours a night, 2 hours less than the recommended minimum. With Dr. Maisel’s help, readers can le...
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Medicare For You
“The decisions you make when you sign up for Medicare can impact your costs — and your quality of care — for the rest of your life. No one gives better advice about Medicare than Diane Omdahl. “ — Terry Savage, Author of The Savage Truth on Money and Nationally Syndicated Financial Columnist Get ...
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The Mind-Body Cure
“An accessible, concise, systematic, and comprehensive primer on wellness and healing.”—Dr. Gabor Maté, MD, author of When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden StressDo you regularly experience chronic pain, anxiety, fatigue, gut issues, or other symptoms of chronic stress? The Mind-Body Cure wil...
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Sensory Wellness Reflection Journal
Join the Sensory Revolution.The Sensory Wellness Reflection Journal is the companion piece of Sensory Wellness, the life-changing book that bridges the gap between understanding sensory wellness and putting it into practice. Think of this journal as a guide for learning how to bloom into your bes...
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The Complete Guide to Autism & Healthcare
Quality advice from a nurse with autism! Winner of the Temple Grandin Literary Award. The Complete Guide to Autism and Healthcare is geared toward use in healthcare curriculum courses and is a guidebook for all healthcare and allied healthcare providers. It's important for healthcare prof...
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La levedad de las libélulas: Hacia la medicina de la salud, un nuevo enfoque para lograr el equilibrio físico y mental / The Lightness of Dragonflies
Hacia la medicina de la salud Un nuevo enfoque para lograr el equilibrio físico y mental Carlos López-Otín, catedrático de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular reconocido internacionalmente por sus contribuciones al estudio del genoma humano, el envejecimiento y el cáncer, recorre la historia de la me...
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Diez drogas
Un emocionante repaso al descubrimiento fortuito de diez fármacos modernos, así como un práctico análisis de otros problemas a mayor escala a los que se enfrenta la industria farmacéutica actual.Detrás de cada fármaco se esconde una historia. Puede ser la de un investigador excéntrico que resultó...
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Tú has escrito este libro: Neurociencia aplicada al día a día para tu bienestar / You Have Written This Book
Neurociencia aplicada a tu día a día: aprende a relacionarte de manera pacífica con tus pensamientos para disfrutar de una vida plena y feliz. Nos definimos como «seres pensantes» y nos guiamos por nuestros pensamientos o creencias sin sospechar que estos, a los ojos de la neurociencia, no son má...
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La ciencia en la sombra: Los crímenes más célebres de la historia, las series y el cine, a la luz de la ciencia forense / Science in the shadows
Por fin podrás entender las técnicas que utiliza la policía científica para resolver crímenes. ¿Cómo funciona una prueba de ADN? ¿Puede un insecto señalar al culpable de un asesinato? ¿Cómo se sabe a qué hora se produjo un asesinato? ¿Por qué algunos cadáveres se descomponen y otros no? ¿Cómo se ...
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Desbloquea el amor / Unlock Love
Descubre el extraordinario poder sanador de las hormonas. Este libro explica el trabajo de la oxitocina, la hormona encargada de nuestra interacción con el mundo exterior. Conocida también como «la hormona del amor», es la responsable de algunas de las emociones positivas que se sienten durante ...
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Ante la depresión
Todo lo que hay que saber sobre la enfermedad de nuestro tiempo.«Tengo una depresión» o «mi mujer está deprimida» son frases que se oyen con mucha frecuencia. También es habitual que el enfermo se queje de que nadie le entiende. El profesor Vallejo-Nágera es autor de este profundo libro en el que...
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GIS Jump Start for Health Professionals
Now, more than ever, professionals can benefit from the power of location data, maps, and analytics in healthcare with this concise and focused workbook.
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Cartographies of Disease
Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine, new expanded edition, is a comprehensive survey of the technology of mapping and its relationship to the battle against disease.
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GIS Tutorial for Health for ArcGIS Desktop 10.8
GIS Tutorial for Health for ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 introduces readers to preparing, visualizing, and analyzing health data in a workbook designed for teaching with ArcGIS Desktop 10.8.
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Confessions of a veterinary nurse
Join Tracey on her humorous and bittersweet journey from trainee to fully-qualified veterinary nurse.Filled with love, fluff, laughter and the occasional tear, Tracey's story is a fascinating insight into the hard work and dedication that goes into looking after animals, in sickness and in health.
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Carte Blanche
“Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential.” —Ibram X. Kendi Carte Blanche is the alarming tale of how the right of Americans to say “no” to risky medical research is being violated. Patients' right to give or withhold consent is supposed to be protected by law, but for decades medical research ...
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Reading Our Minds
What is psychiatry and how can we improve it? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways—except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of Medi...
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Metastasis
A bold rethinking of cancer as a biological phenomenon, an indictment of science that serves capitalism, and a radical vision of liberated health and well-being.More than fifty years after the declaration of the War on Cancer, we are nowhere closer to victory. The problem lies in the way cancer i...
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Just Diagnosed
“Just Diagnosed was given to me when I was newly diagnosed with breast cancer. I was able to be extremely prepared for all of my doctor's visits, armed with questions suggested by the book. It was also a source of comfort, knowing that even though everyone's breast cancer journey is different, we...
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Becoming Doctors 25 Years Later
Twenty-five years after graduating from America’s top medical schools, twenty-five physicians from a dozen specialties share the joys and struggles of learning and practicing medicine today. After studying at Brown, Cornell, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Yale and a dozen more medical schools, ...
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Ethical Theory and Pertinent Standards in Women’s Reproductive Health
The original Hippocratic Oath states in part, “…I will not give a woman an abortive remedy.” The purpose of medicine is to heal and maintain the health of the patient. Abortion does neither one of those two things for either the woman or the child. Since the dawn of western medicine abortion was...
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Multilingual Interaction and Dementia
This book addresses multilingual interaction in ethnoculturally diverse care and healthcare encounters involving people with dementia. It analyses the practices and actions used by interlocutors to facilitate mutual understanding, enhance social relations and assure optimal care and treatment, in...
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Multilingual Aspects of Fluency Disorders
This book examines how the diverse forms seen in some of the world’s languages affect speech development and how this can lead to fluency disorders. Language in monolingual speakers of different languages is examined as well as specific issues that may arise in speakers who speak two or more lang...
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Research in Logopedics
This book links theoretical approaches of logopedics to clinical practices of speech and language therapy in Finland and in Finnish language. It provides the readers with examples of and insights into the communication challenges in a language that differs substantially from those used in the maj...
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Assessing Grammar
This book brings together versions of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) in 13 different languages from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists around the world and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abilities...
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Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers
Global migration continues to increase, and with it linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent international perspectives on language barriers in health care. Solutions and approaches, as well as the i...
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Grammatical Profiles
This collection brings together language profiles of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) from 12 languages around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists in many countries and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abilit...
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Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers
Global migration continues to increase, and with it linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent international perspectives on language barriers in health care. Solutions and approaches, as well as the i...
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Multilingual Aspects of Speech Sound Disorders in Children
This book translates research into clinical practice for speech-language pathologists working with children. The book explores both multilingual and multicultural aspects of children with speech sound disorders. The 30 theoretical and clinical chapters have been written by 44 authors from 16 diff...
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Crosslinguistic Encounters in Language Acquisition
This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. It will be of interest to researchers, clinical linguists, language patho...
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Motor Speech Disorders
This book investigates cross-language aspects of motor speech disorders, including their assessment and treatment as well as the underlying neurophysiological and neuropsychological disruptions that bring about disorders of speech motor control.
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Researching Dyslexia in Multilingual Settings
This volume draws together current research on dyslexia and literacy in multilingual settings across disciplines and methodologies. The contributors, all internationally recognised in the field, address developmental and acquired literacy difficulties and dyslexia in a range of language contexts ...
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Profiling Grammar
This collection brings together twelve new language profiles of the Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP) from around the world. It will be an invaluable resource for speech-language pathologists in many countries, and for those wishing to analyse the grammatical abiliti...
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Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
This book offers a solution to the familiar dilemma of decoding communication difficulties for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a sociocultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, c...
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International Perspectives on Voice Disorders
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of voice research and issues in clinical voice practice. The contributors are all voice experts and bring a range of international perspectives to the volume.
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Chinese older people
Chinese older people living in the UK suffer from a number of disadvantages compounded by exclusion from both their own community and the mainstream community. Not only do Chinese older people find it difficult to access social and public services, but their own community is also not strong enoug...
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The Politics of Ailment
Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states. This book radically challenges the ethics of viewing care as a tradeable commodity and introduces a novel framework for understanding and analysing social care through the concept of ailmen...
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The Grim Reaper's road map
This impressive full-colour atlas, with over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, uniquely presents the geography of death in Britain. The first atlas published on this subject for over two decades, this book presents data from more than 14 million deaths over a 24-year period in Britain. The m...
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Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice
Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment. This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health improvement through planning and land use decisio...
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The widening gap
Relentlessly, the wide health gap between different groups of people living in Britain continues to get even wider. This book presents new evidence (which was not available to the government's Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health) on the size of the gap, and the extent to which the gap...
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User-defined outcomes of community care for Asian disabled people
The NHS and Community Care Act (1990) specifically emphasises the health and social care needs of disabled people from minority ethnic communities, urging local authorities to be culturally sensitive to individual needs. This report examines what a culturally sensitive service looks like from the...
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Delivering Personal Health Budgets
Personal health budgets are an important new tool to improve the lives of people living with long-term conditions and disabilities by giving them greater choice and control over their healthcare.This is the first step-by-step guide to their implementation. Using current evidence and best practic...
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Developing reflective practice
Developing reflective practice is an invaluable resource, employing a unique 'bottom-up' approach to learning. Vivid examples of social work practice with children and families are presented, providing real life illustrations of the dilemmas and challenges facing practitioners. Educators and prac...
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Debates in Personalisation
This unique book brings together, for the first time, advocates and critics of the personalisation agenda in English social care services to debate key issues relating to personalisation. Perspectives from service users, practitioners, academics and policy commentators come together to give an ac...
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Unequal partners
Self-organised user groups of social and health care services are playing an increasingly significant part within systems of local governance. Based on detailed empirical work looking at the user and 'official' perspective, this report includes studies of user groups and officials in two policy a...
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Evidence, policy and practice
This edited book provides a hard-hitting and deliberately provocative overview of the relationship between evidence, policy and practice, how policy is implemented and how research can and should influence the policy process. It critiques the notion of 'evidence-based practice', suggesting instea...
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Inequalities in health
The Acheson Inquiry was the most important government-backed examination into inequalities in health in the past 20 years. However, much of the detailed evidence presented to the Inquiry has not been published - until now. This book presents 17 chapters of evidence commissioned by the Acheson Inq...
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Communication and health in a multi-ethnic society
Communication and cultural diversity have become key focus areas as the health service engages with goals of health improvement and equity. This timely and unique book provides a rigorous and challenging review of recent research, with a particular focus on health communication interventions con...
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Tackling institutional racism
The publication of the Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence emphasised the institutionally racist nature of British society. Public bodies and welfare institutions are having to face the consequences of racism within their organisations. This task should draw on the earlier experience of t...
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A right result?
What is true advocacy? How can advocacy be evaluated? Should there be practice standards in advocacy? As advocacy moves into the mainstream of health and social care provision, and the prospect of a legal right to advocacy inches closer, so the need to scrutinise key values and practices in advoc...
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Towards the emancipation of patients
Despite a policy focus on involving patients in health care and increasing patient autonomy, much covert coercion of patients takes place in everyday healthcare. This book, by a leading patient activist, examines for the first time how the patient movement, which works to improve the quality of h...
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On the edge
Despite increased awareness of the needs, circumstances and experiences of families with a disabled child, and the acknowledgement of the need to tackle inequalities and barriers to access in recent NHS reforms, there has been little gain in health or improved access to services for minority ethn...
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Domestic violence and health
Domestic violence and health is one of the first indepth studies within Britain to explore the issue of healthcare professionals' attitudes towards women who are victims of domestic violence. There is a growing interest by healthcare professionals and researchers about the role of healthcare prof...
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What works in tackling health inequalities?
In recent years, tackling health inequalities has become a key policy objective in the UK. However, doubts remain about how best to translate broad policy recommendations into practice. One key area of uncertainty concerns the role of local level initiatives. This book identifies the key targets ...
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Invisible families
Invisible families: highlights the inappropriate nature of many services currently available to black young people and their families; provides a critical analysis of relevant key studies; utilises a black perspective to explore black young people's experiences: young black people were fully enga...
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The Unequal Pandemic
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-pandemic EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not di...
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Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities
In a world facing multiple intersecting crises, the push for healthier, more resilient societies has never been more urgent. This timely book reveals how empowered and organised communities can lead this change. It offers policy makers, academics, and activists research-driven insights, decolonia...
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Ending the Social Care Crisis
What lies behind England’s crisis in adult social care, why has real change been so hard and what can be done? Ensuring effective, sustainable and affordable care and support for people of all ages is an urgent public policy challenge. This vital book outlines a different vision of social care a...
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Living with risk
This topical report explores risk assessment and risk management for people being discharged from psychiatric hospital into the community. It breaks new ground by asking service users about their views on, and experiences of, posing a former or potential risk to other people. The report also incl...
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Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis
This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain’s ageing society. With informal care from family members and friends now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support. ...
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Home Sweet Home?
How much does the condition of our housing affect our health? This timely new study looks in detail at the impact poor housing has on health, using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS). It provides important information to inform the current debate on Our Healthier Nation and to ...
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Speaking to power
Anyone working, or planning to work, as an advocate for people who need help in dealing with public services will want to read this book. Advocacy is an area of increasing importance in service provision, where new ways of working have to be found that increasingly create an enabling, rather than...
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Living Data
As individuals increasingly seek ways of accessing, understanding and sharing data about their own bodies, this book offers a critique of the popular claim that ‘more information’ equates to ‘better health’. In a study that redefines the public, academic and policy related debates around health, ...
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How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a hot topic: governments, psychologists and a thousand self-appointed ‘experts’ all claim to promote it and yet our societies are experiencing record levels of mental distress and ill-health. Why? Matthew Fisher presents a compelling new perspective on psychological wellbeing informe...
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The Future for Health Promotion
Does health promotion have a lasting and positive effect on people? With mounting pressure to reduce costs to the NHS and increasing scepticism of the so-called nanny state, health promotion initiatives are increasingly being criticised as costly and ineffective, with many arguing that health ine...
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