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  • Sustainable Neighbourhoods for Ageing in Place

    An Interdisciplinary Voice Against Global Crises

    Edited by Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Pablo Villalobos Dintrans, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Emmanuel Mogaji, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Ruth Lowry, Henry Kofi Mensah ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation. It is the first-known volume to consider the four crises as health and social threats to healthy ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Restorative Cities

    urban design for mental health and wellbeing

    by Jenny Roe, Layla McCay ...
    Overcrowding, noise and air pollution, long commutes and lack of daylight can take a huge toll on the mental well-being of city-dwellers. With mental healthcare services under increasing pressure, could a better approach to urban design and planning provide a solution? The restrictions faced by city residents around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought home just how much urban design ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    Developing Practice for Public Health and Health Promotion E-Book

    by Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills ...
    Series series Public Health and Health Promotion
    This package provides you with the book plus the eBook – giving you the printed book and also giving access to the complete book content electronically. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Occupational Therapies without Borders - Volume 2

    Towards an ecology of occupation-based practices

    Edited by Frank Kronenberg, Nick Pollard, Dikaios Sakellariou ...
    The companion text to Occupational Therapy without Borders - Volume 1: learning from the spirit of survivors! In this landmark text writers from around the world discuss a plurality of occupation-based approaches that explicitly acknowledge the full potential of the art and science of occupational therapy. The profession is presented as a political possibilities-based practice, concerned with what ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Global Health Collaboration

    Challenges and Lessons

    Edited by Margaret S. Winchester, Caprice A. Knapp, Rhonda BeLue ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Public Health
    This stimulating open access volume details the innovative work of the Pan Institution Network for Global Health in creating collaborative research-based answers to large-scale health issues. Equitable partnerships among member universities representing North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe reverse standard cross-national dynamics to develop locally relevant responses to health challenges as ... Read more

    Free

  • Oxford Textbook of Public Health Palliative Care

    Edited by Julian Abel, Allan Kellehear ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Palliative Medicine
    Death, dying, loss, and care giving are not just medical issues, but societal ones. Palliative care has become increasingly professionalised, focused around symptom science. With this emphasis on minimizing the harms of physical, psychological, and spiritual stress, there has been a loss of how cultures and communities look after their dying, with the wider social experience of death often ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights

    Global Inequities, Challenges, and Opportunities for Action

    Edited by Shira M. Goldenberg, Ruth Morgan Thomas, Anna Forbes, Stefan Baral ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the health inequities and human rights issues faced by sex workers globally across diverse contexts, and outlines evidence-based strategies and best practices.Sex workers face severe health and social inequities, largely as the result of structural factors including punitive and criminalized legal environments, stigma, and social and ... Read more

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  • Violence Against Women During Coronavirus

    When Staying Home Isn’t Safe

    by Naomi Pfitzner, Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Sandra Walklate, Silke Meyer, Marie Segrave ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book brings together leading international violence researchers to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on experiences of, and responses to, domestic and family violence. In April 2020 the United Nations predicted that for every three months the COVID-19 lockdowns continued an additional 15 million cases of domestic violence would occur worldwide, termed the "shadow ... Read more

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  • Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing

    International perspectives on practice, policy and research

    Edited by Stephen Clift, Paul M. Camic ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Public Health
    There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, the Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing is the first work of its kind to discuss the role the creative arts have in addressing some of the most pressing public health challenges faced ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Ageing and Urban Planning

    Edited by Matthias Drilling, Pamela Suero, Hind Al-Shoubaki, Fabian Neuhaus ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This process requires collaboration between professionals and the community, going beyond mere functionality to connect the micro and macro scales at the city, region, nation, and the ... Read more

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  • Urban Mental Health (Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series)

    Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio, João Castaldelli-Maia, Layla McCay ...
    Series series Oxford Cultural Psychiatry
    Over the past fifty years we have seen an enormous demographic shift in the number of people migrating to urban areas, proliferated by factors such as industrialisation and globalisation. Urban migration has led to numerous societal stressors such as pollution, overcrowding, unemployment, and resource, which in turn has contributed to psychiatric disorders within urban spaces. Rates of mental ... Read more

    $66.59 USD

  • Wellbeing and Policy

    Evidence for Action

    Edited by Marie Briguglio, Natalia Czap, Kate Laffan ...
    As wellbeing becomes an increasingly explicit policy goal in countries across the world, the demand for evidence upon which to base intervention is growing. Featuring 41 contributing authors from 18 countries, this book surveys and synthesizes recent developments in wellbeing science and policy to highlight key lessons learned and to offer actionable insights for policy-making.Opening with a ... Read more

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