Public Health Policy and Practice

Placing complex interventions within a coherent system of research enquiry, this text is designed to help researchers understand the research processes involved at each stage of developing, testing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions, and assist them to integrate methodological activi..

Placing complex interventions within a coherent system of research enquiry, this text is designed to help researchers understand the research processes involved at each stage of developing, testing, evaluating and implementing complex interventions, and assist them to integrate methodological activi..

This book discusses how understandings of public health have developed in their political and social context over the twentieth century, identifying ruptures and redefinitions in its conceptualisation. It analyses the dynamic rhetorical play through which key concepts have been used as political too..

This book offers an overview of key topics relevant to cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Looking at culture, sex and gender, sexual diversity, sex work, migration and sexual violence, each section begins with a discussion which places the theme, and the chapters that follow, in a..

This book offers an overview of key topics relevant to cultural perspectives on sexuality and sexual health. Looking at culture, sex and gender, sexual diversity, sex work, migration and sexual violence, each section begins with a discussion which places the theme, and the chapters that follow, in a..

This book offers a unique analysis of the changing landscape of healthcare reform in Britain, as an example of decentralized reforms across the developed world. The collection is framed by the recognition that healthcare reform has resulted in variegated and decentralized forms of governance...

This book explores the daily realities of working life for mid-level managers in the UK’s NHS and critiques the movement towards a healthcare model, based around HMO-type providers such as Kaiser Permanente, that is well-known internationally but is often considered far from 'best practice' when it ..

Disaster Health Management is the first comprehensive textbook to provide a standard guide to terminology and management systems across the entire spectrum of disaster health. The textbook provides an authoritative overview of: the conceptual basis for disaster management; systems and structures for..

This comprehensive fourth edition of Donaldsons' presents the main challenges encountered in managing population health, the tools used to explore these and the strategies to tackle them. This edition focuses on public health in the UK but places this within a new global health context...

Ranging from influence over trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to using comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible and effective. This collection capitalizes on extensive new research, providing an intro..

This book demonstrates the corrosive impact of social inequality, and the futility of identifying consumers as flawed, on creating food policies that seek to achieve positive public health outcomes in a context lacking in regulation across global markets._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally publis..

Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying attention to budgets, policies and pr..