Making Health Policy, Paperback

This important book traces the history of genetics and genomics policy in Britain. Detailing the scientific, political and economic factors that ha...

Reducere. As a student of nursing or another healthcare profession, you have likely been introduced to evidence-based practice (EBP) as a means for addressin...

By design, the scope of Behavioral Science & Policy is broad, with topics spanning health care, financial decision-making, energy and the environme...

American Public Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the policy-making process from procedural approaches and policy instruments to in-depth...

As many social inequalities widen, this is a crucial survey of local authorities' evolving role in health, social care and wellbeing. Health and so...

Taking a multidisciplinary perspective (including public health, sociology, criminology, and political science amongst others), and using examples ...

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise pr...

Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affor...

Providing a basis for effective policy-making, this book is an overview of health financing tools, policies and trends - with a particular focus on...

Reflecting changes in health promotion practice, policy and research, this title explores the potential at the local level for communities to be in...

Reducere. Every year a vast number of research studies and a myriad of other forms of 'evidence' are produced that have potential to inform policy and practi...

DescriptionIn 1997, when the author began research in Peru, she observed a profound disconnect between the birth care desires of health personnel a...

Reducere. What do faithful living and faithful dying mean as we near life's end? With all the technology and choices available to us today, making decisions ...

DescriptionBeginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. ...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

Reducere. How can America get back to an energy transition that's good for the economy and the environment? That's the question at the heart of this eye-open...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book takes a lofty vision of "recovery" and of "a life in the community" for every adult with a serious mental illness promised by ...

Reducere. Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As Chin...

DescriptionThis report addresses the development challenges facing young people in the Arab region. The current young generation is the largest thi...

Reducere. An informative and funny deconstruction of how the giants of American capitalism shape our world In Billionaires, Darryl Cunningham offers an illum...

Reducere. Renowned psychologist Walter Mischel, designer of the famous Marshmallow Test, explains what self-control is and how to master it. A child is prese...

Over a career spanning American history from the 1880s to the 1950s, John Dewey sought not only to forge a persuasive argument for his conviction t...