Personal & Public Health

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

This book weaves together intersectional threads that underlie the experiences of older men and women in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. While ...

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philo...

Bullying as a Social Experience presents data from both the US and New Zealand and draws on past research from around the world to show how social ...

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...

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. ...

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

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

Taking a decentred approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which r...

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school, community, fami...

In recent years, health has become a pressing issue in international politics - a development which has been reflected in the growth of academic li...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy area...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare de...

This book examines the role of disability in the right to political and social participation, an act of citizenship that many disabled people do no...

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts lik...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demo...

Originally published in 1995, The Body Under Stress, reissued here with a new preface, seeks to define positive health, the skills needed to acquir...

India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare inf...

This title was first published in 2003. In this key volume, William Housley examines the concepts of multidisciplinarity and team practice in socia...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target unsafe, unhealthy and/or risky behaviours. The...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination agains...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351026987, has been made available under a Creat...

Ageing is widely recognised as one of the social and economic challenges in the contemporary, globalised world, for which scientific, technological...

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe cons...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young peoples diets, and a pu...

Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their p...

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. Thi...