Health Policy category: 748 books
Youth Policy and Social Inclusion
Critical Debates with Young People
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2004
Taking a holistic and multidisciplinary approach this book identifies and analyzes the factors which promote or discourage social inclusion of young people in today’s society. It critically examines the discriminatory attitudes towards young people, and focuses on the 'problem' of adults rather...
Cries of Crisis
Rethinking the Health Care Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Since the late 1960s, health care in the United States has been described as a system in crisis. No matter their position, those seeking to improve the system have relied on the rhetoric of crisis to build support for their preferred remedies, to the point where the language and imagery of a health...
Everyday Exposure
Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences...
Is Anyone Listening?
Accountability and Women Survivors of Domestic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Domestic violence is in the public eye as never before, but how often are abused women consulted or involved in the new services and policies? This book investigates, and reveals that the voices of survivors of domestic violence are often simply not heard; silenced, the women themselves become invisible.
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by D. J. Summers
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Despite the unique culture surrounding cannabis, this new industry follows the same economic principles as does any other agricultural product—that is, it would if the federal government allowed it to. Four distinct challenges prevent the cannabis industry from becoming fully legal and federally...
by Henricson, Clem
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
With an increasingly bitter secular religious divide, there is a messy, defective relationship between the state and morality in the UK. In response, Morality and Public Policy puts forward proposals to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond more effectively to morality and associated shifts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
During the last 15 years, human sociobiology has metamorphosed into evolutionary psychology. It is concerned with the social problems and stresses hominid and primate ancestors encountered, the psychological mechanisms natural selection shaped to deal with these stresses, and the way those ancient...
European Drug Policies
The Ways of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
The drug control regime established by the international community has not succeeded in curbing either the demand for, or the offer of, narcotics. But, despite a series of developments in the Americas – including the legalisation of cannabis in Uruguay and in several states in the United States...
After Adoption
Direct Contact and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements...
Care Work
Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Care Work considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition of the current workforce (more than a million in the UK alone), the knowledge and education needed for care work, and the significance...
Soda Politics
Taking on Big Soda (And Winning)
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers--principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo--into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as...
by Roger M. Battistella
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
An expert debunks popular misconceptions about health policy, including the merits of single-payer plans, and offers an alternative.
Public-Private Partnerships in Health
Improving Infrastructure and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This book considers the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of physical assets, infrastructure and technologies and related clinical services, in the health sector. The PPP model represents the most complex form of contracting transaction yet to have emerged in the health sector,...
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Obesity and the Limits of Shame
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2011
Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations...