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Health Policy in a Globalising World

Increasing recognition of the impact that globalisation may be having on public health has led to widespread concern about the risks arising from emerging and re-emerging diseases, environmental degradation and demographic change. This book argues that health policy making is being affected by globalisation and that these effects are, in turn, contributing to the kind of global health issues being faced today.

AIDS Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles in Tanzania and Zambia

While there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention.

Sex Surveyed, 1949-1994: From Mass-Observation's "Little Kinsey" To The National Survey And The Hite Reports

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Establishing Private Health Care Facilities in Developing Countries: A Guide for Medical Entrepreneurs

This book is a practical guide for medical professionals with little or no business experience who are interested in establishing health care facilities in developing countries. It is an introduction to the kinds of basic research and planning required to identify viable solutions and reduce the risk of failure.

Suicides in Prison

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Critical To Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services

Who counts as a health care worker? The question of where we draw the line between health care workers and non-health care workers is not merely a matter of academic nicety or a debate without consequences for care.

The State of the Prisons - 200 Years On

In 1777 John Howard wrote The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons.

International Analysis Poverty

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Reform of Child Care Law: A Practical Guide to the Children Act 1989

Children Act 1989 introduced the most radical changes to child care law for a generation. Eekelaar and Dingwall provide a concise, practical guide to the legislation for all professionals practising in this area.

Crime in Europe

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation

Racism and Anti-Racism in Probation analyses the complex processes by which black people are treated differentially by the probation service.

Healthy Markets?: The New Competition in Medical Care

When federal and state policy makers' efforts to enact sweeping health care reform in the mid-1990s ended in stalemate, the private sector unleashed initiatives that have affected virtually every aspect of health care.

Anorexic Bodies: A Feminist and Sociological Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa

This book explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as dangerous and voracious.

Medical Imaging Syst Tech & Ap

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Measuring Quality Improvement in Healthcare: A Guide to Statistical Process Control Applications

This ground-breaking book addresses the critical, growing need among healthcare administrators and practitioners to measure the effectiveness of quality improvement efforts.

Health at Risk

In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health plans that put patients in charge of risk and cost.

A Suitable Case for Treatment: The NHS and Reform

The NHS is a national icon that spends a lot of taxpayer's money, sometimes wastefully. This is an account of a Labour Health Minister's involvement in reforming a reluctant NHS.

Health Information Management

In almost all western countries concerted efforts are undertaken to enhance the use of information and communication technology in health care. This book will introduce the reader to the challenges, lessons learned and new insights of health information management at the beginning of the 21st century.

Healthy Cities: Research and Practice

The growth of health promotion as a topic for discussion and a principle for practice is widespread, and affects all groups of health professionals.

Innovations in Health Service Delivery: The Corporatization of Public Hospitals

Hospitals remain an important source of critical health care services in most countries, providing both basic and advanced care to their populations. They are often the provider 'of last resort" for the critically ill and poor.

Growing up with Alcohol

The use and misuse of alcohol by young people is an established concern. Initiatives designed to educate the young about the potential dangers of alchol are frequently directed solely at teenagers.

Compassion: Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS

Compassion, Continuity and Caring in the NHS is a fascinating exploration of the importance of compassion in health care.

Nordic Welfare States in the European Context

Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Labor Market Prospective on What Works What Does Not and Why

The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level.

Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers

Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically.

Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic

The United States is facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions: children are gaining weight younger and faster than ever before. With the prospect of becoming the most obese generation of adults in history, they are already turning up with an alarming assortment of "grown-up" maladies, from type 2 diabetes to high blood pressure.

Becoming a Social Worker: Global Narratives

This is a book about social workers and social work. It tells the story of the journey into and through social work of people from around the world living and working in social work today.

Roads to Reconciliation: Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-first Century

Improving Healthcare Team Performance: The 7 Requirements for Excellence in Patient Care

Practical, proven techniques for improving team performance in the health care worldTeams and collaboration have become an expectation in most healthcare facilities and environments.

Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time

This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness-persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity-and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines.

Tsanga

'Place of Reeds, Place of Healing' Heather Powell tells the story of the creation of Tsanga Lodge Recuperation Centre in eastern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Tsanga Lodge was created to allow wounded and stressed forces personnel to recover from their trauma and is a living example of racial harmony and the demonstrable role of humour in the healing of mind, body and situation.

So You Think Medicine is Modern: Revolutionising Health Care for the 21st Century

Sectioned: Social Services and the 1983 Mental Health Act

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Doctor

Doctor is a chronicle of the many ordinary and the fewer extraordinary people encountered by one physician during his forty years of practice. It serves as a testament to the grace, poise, and spirit manifested by so many in the midst of tragedies and triumphs, agonies and joys, and dying and living.

Assisted Living: Sobering Realities

Learn how to make elder housing more homelike! Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families.

Mad Cow Crisis: Health And The Public Good

The announcement that BOSER might cause a fatal human disease "Creutzfeldt- Jacob disease CJD" triggered enormous media attention, public alarm and government wrangling that threatened the future of European integration.

Alcohol Problems in the Community

Community surveys reveal that about 6% of the adult male and 1% of the adult female population in England and Wales are drinking at high risk levels.

Whose Welfare

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

American Medicine Mismanaged Care

This book explains why American Medicine is an administrative monstrosity and tells how simple changes can provide coverage for all Americans add pharmacy and leave 200 Billion left over.

Improving Health, Nutrition and Population Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of the World Bank

In recent years, the focus in many developing regions is increasingly moving away from communicable disease, where as Africa continues to face a high burden of communicable disease, malnutrition, and fertility. At the same time, the ways in which the World Bank operates are changing - increasingly countries define their own priorities, resources are provided through programmatic approaches, and the Bank is focusing more on sharing knowledge, policy advice, research and analysis.