Personal & Public Health

This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brin...

This book investigates the interplay between disability and religion in Africa, and what this means in the context of the Sustainable Development G...

When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in different areas of the Nor...

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing...

The Physical Therapists Guide to Womens Pelvic, Perinatal and Reproductive Health provides physical rehabilitation throughout the lifespan for wome...

The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democraci...

The Welfare Workforce is a thought-provoking exploration of mental health care in the United States and beyond. Although all the affluent democraci...

This innovative and comprehensive textbook provides a detailed exploration of the role of occupational therapy in addressing the unique needs of wo...

This innovative and comprehensive textbook provides a detailed exploration of the role of occupational therapy in addressing the unique needs of wo...

Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume offers new insights for critically engaging with the ...

This open access book seeks to change the way we think about happiness and the good life. It starts ambitiously by exploring how the biological que...

This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies.Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic i...

This book brings together theologians, clergy, people with dementia, carers, clinicians and others to offer a holistic, interdisciplinary explorati...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question Who speaks? by examining a variet...

Drawing on recent theoretical frameworks from critical disability studies and art education including normalcy, ableism, disability and Crip theory...

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central...

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing. In ...

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

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

Neuroplasticity is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to func...

Neuroplasticity is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to func...

This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to s...

This book describes the events, activities and negotiations leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on international drug policy...

Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be foolish? In...

This book is an exploration of issues that are essential in end of life care. Understanding end of life practices across cultures and religions is ...

In our world of constant conflict, environmental destruction, cruelty, and misery for many, is a new direction needed more than ever?In this new se...

Drawing from ethnographic research, this book presents childrens lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. By taking the case of Siay...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition...

A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons.Access to good food is the litmus test of a societys commitment ...

A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons.Access to good food is the litmus test of a societys commitment ...

One in five adults and one in six youth experience a mental health illness within a year. These common conditions are often managed within complex ...

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every ...

Now in its sixth edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new ...

This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, hea...

This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Rom...

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This b...

This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of t...

From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to exami...

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 ...