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  • Health Policy and the NHS

    Towards 2000

    by Judith Allsop ...
    Series series Longman Social Policy In Britain Series
    Health Policy and the NHS provides a thorough and up-to-date review of the changes in the structure and organisation of the health service. It focuses on how sucessive governments have approached problems of health care, their policy assumptions and the economic and political context of their decision making. Divided into four parts the text considers in turn: the foundations and framework of the ... Read more

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  • Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective

    The Invisible Providers of Health Care

    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    Health care support workers (HSWs) play a fundamental role in international health care systems, and yet they remain largely invisible. Despite this, the number of HSWs is growing fast as governments strive to combat illness and address social care issues in a world of finite resources.This original collection analyses the global experience of HSWs in the UK, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Canada, ... Read more

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  • Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest

    International Perspectives

    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still ... Read more

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  • Researching Health

    Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods

    Edited by Mike Saks, Judith Allsop ...
    Saks and Allsop′s Researching Health offers a comprehensive introduction to research methods for health care students and practitioners. The new third edition includes important theoretical updates, and further international content, with contributors from the UK, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Canada, and Spain, covering a number of specialisms and providing perspectives on core topics ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Policy and Strategy for Improving Health and Wellbeing

    Series series Transforming Public Health Practice Series
    As health policy at a national level has ever increasing impact on local health services, it is essential that public health students understand how the development and implementation of policy and strategy provide the framework for improving quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the delivery of healthcare.The book is divided into two sections, with section one covering a strategic ... Read more

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  • Organisational Capacity Building in Health Systems

    by Niyi Awofeso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Capacity building – which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results – is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries. Organisations are important structural building blocks of health systems because they provide ... Read more

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  • Healthcare Research Ethics and Law

    Regulation, Review and Responsibility

    by Hazel Biggs ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    The book explores and explains the relationship between law and ethics in the context of medically related research in order to provide a practical guide to understanding for members of research ethics committees (RECs), professionals involved with medical research and those with an academic interest in the subject.Healthcare Research Ethics and Law sets out the law as it relates to the functions ... Read more

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  • Health Policy

    A Critical Perspective

    by Iain Crinson ...
    This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical detail and wider social commentary.The book is divided into four sections:- Section One establishes a theoretical basis for the ... Read more

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  • Social Work and Poverty

    A Critical Approach

    Social work and poverty: A critical approach provides a timely review of the key issues facing social workers and service users in working together to combat poverty.First, it situates social work and poverty within a historical context, then analyses definitions and theories of poverty along with their importance in enabling anti-oppressive practice with service users. It goes on to evaluate the ... Read more

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  • Interprofessional Social Work

    Effective Collaborative Approaches

    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    All Social Work students are required to undertake specific learning and assessment in partnership working and information sharing across professional disciplines and agencies. Increasingly, social workers are also finding that they need to deal with a wide range of other professions as part of their daily work. It is essential therefore that social workers can work effectively and collaboratively ... Read more

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  • Health Reform

    Public Success, Private Failure

    Edited by Daniel Drache, Terry Sullivan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era
    Health Reform explores the challenges facing health care provision in the advanced economies. The book exposes the limitations of market-led health reform and demonstrates the indispensable role of a vibrant public authority in the renewal of modern health care systems. Issues covered include:* cost-containment and privatisation strategies in an international perspective* the role of business and ... Read more

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