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To Live and Die in America
Class, Power, Health and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
To Live and Die in America details how the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world and at the same time spends significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation.
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory...
by Alec Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In line with current government policy and related recommendations, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, mental health students will be increasingly required to either engage in, or be appropriately familiar with, the principles of cognitive behavioural interventions.
This book...
Health Care in Malaysia
The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:
the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of...
Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
A Strengths-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions
A Strengths-Based Approach
"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring of knowledge, from the theoretical to the clinical. The many vignettes and transcriptions...
Looking Away
Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, this is not the morning we had all so longed for... -Faiz Ahmed Faiz In the two decades since the early 1990s, when India confirmed its allegiance to the Free Market, more of its citizens have become marginalized than ever before, and society...
Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers
A Synthesis of Findings across OECD Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining:...
Homeless in Seattle
An Examination of the City’s Homeless Crisis, the Current Responses, and Possible Solutions to Ending Homelessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2018
Seattle is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis. More than ten thousand people live on the streets of the city as homeless individuals and their numbers continue to rise. In order to understand the crisis, an examination of the make up of the homeless population needs to be done in combination...
Work in the Digital Age
Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Shining a light on the very different experiences of work in the digital age, this book provides a unique contribution to the reform discussion on the consequences of the fourth industrial revolution. Drawing on a wide range of international expertise, contributors examine important policy challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Everything on the Line:
Calming & De-escalation of Aggressive & Mentally Ill Individuals on the Phone - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Emergency Dispatch (9-1-1) Centers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Although call-takers at an Emergency Dispatch Center are under no immediate physical threat, they are often the focus of intense verbal violence. In this comprehensive guidebook, Ellis Amdur, with the assistance of consultants whose cumulative experience in emergency call-taking and emergency dispatch...
by June Goulding
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'
In Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there...
Citizens in Europe
Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist...
Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Effective Interventions in Social Work and Child Protection
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book presents original research outlining the key elements in responding to parental misuse of drugs and alcohol.
Offers a definition of “misuse” and “addiction” and the factors that influence the nature of misuse or addiction
Reviews extensively the nature and impact of parental...