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Handbook on Religion and Health
Edited by James R. Cochrane, Gary R. Gunderson, Teresa Cutts
This revelatory Handbook explores the relationship between religion and health, emphasising the effects of organised religion and spirituality on community, population, and public health. While comprehensively summarising the current sta...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Research Handbook on Homelessness
Edited by Guy Johnson, Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Stephen Metraux, Eoin O’Sullivan
The Research Handbook on Homelessness presents a comprehensive account of the current knowledge and understanding of homelessness, the substantial challenges it presents and the latest developments in responding to the issue. Bringing to...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Sociology of Diagnosis
Annemarie G. Jutel
This incisive brief guide critically examines the role of medical diagnoses in social life, shining light on both health and disease. Annemarie Goldstein Jutel shows that diagnosis is not simply the labelling of natural disease, but rath...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Understanding Health Systems and Welfare
Bent Greve
Understanding Health Systems and Welfare explores the ways in which we understand health care systems and recommends how individuals, health care providers and society as a whole can best use the resources within the systems for maximum ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life
Edited by Catherine Earl, Philip Taylor
This Research Handbook critically examines the myriad social and economic inequalities faced by those in later life. Contributors dissect examples from the Global North and South to support a new approach to studying ageing that moves be...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Public Policy in the Arab World
Edited by Anis B. Brik
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Public Policy in the Arab World dissects the layered social, economic, and governance issues...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Health Care Policy
Edited by Martin Powell, Tuba I. Agartan, Daniel Béland
Presenting extensive coverage of key theoretical and policy issues within the field of health care research, this forward-looking Research Handbook contends that students of health care need to take policy more seriously.eBook:Find out more$65.00
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A Research Agenda for Disability and Technology
Edited by Jane Seale
This innovative Research Agenda offers a comprehensive analysis of the role of assistive technology (AT) in the lives of people with disabilities. Contributors representing a diverse range of stakeholders including researchers, practitio...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Health Silk Road
Gerald Chan
In the fourth instalment of his ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ series, Gerald Chan provides a critical analysis of China’s vaccine diplomacy. Locating it within China’s wider infrastructure development strategy, Chan deploys geo-developmenta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Quality of Life Research
Edited by Robert W. Marans, Robert J. Stimson, Noah J. Webster
This erudite Handbook demonstrates how multiple approaches have been used to conceptualize, measure, and model the complex issue of quality of life (QOL) and individual well-being, emphasizing place and space as critical factors in a mea...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Human Needs and the Welfare State
Bent Greve
This unique and forward-thinking book explores how we understand needs in relation to the welfare state and to what extent we can, if at all, measure need.eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19
Edited by Helen Dickinson, Sophie Yates, Janine O’Flynn, Catherine Smith
Following the extensive global impact of COVID-19, this forward-looking Research Handbook examines the pandemic from a public management perspective, exploring the roles and responses of public managers and considering how public organis...eBook:Find out more$65.00