Illness & Addiction: Social Aspects

Dieses Buch widmet sich einem drängenden gesellschaftlichen Problem: dem fehlenden Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung für Menschen ohne Krankenversic...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

The climate crisis, inequality, poverty, disease, hunger, food waste, and loss of biodiversity are all part of an extensive list of global challeng...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfass...

The need for paid care workers to provide professional, good quality care for those needing daily support continues to grow throughout the world. ...

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly ...

When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly ...

Life expectancy is about more than just health its about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improv...

Life expectancy is about more than just health its about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improv...

Authoritarian Absorption portrays the rebuilding of China's pandemic response system through its anti-HIV/AIDS battle from 1978 to 2018. Going beyo...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how w...

Affekte, Emotionen und Gefühle sind allgegenwärtig. Sie bestimmen nicht nur unseren Alltag, sie sagen auch viel darüber aus, wer wir sind, beziehun...

This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspe...

This book examines the socio-economic and demographic conditions of Scheduled Castes (SCs) with religious affiliation to Hinduism, Islam and Christ...

Over recent decades an increasing amount of attention has been paid to identifying and meeting the individual support needs of mental health servic...

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incor...

This volume provides a comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness. This ...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed cl...