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Routledge Studies in Health Management Making Sense of Organizational Change and Innovation in Health Care: An Everyday Ethnography (Paperback)

This book explores the hospital via organisational ethnography (OE) an approach that involves a mix of fieldwork methods designed to analyse the hospital which also includes participatory observation qualitative interviews and shadowing. One way to... more

Routledge Studies in Health and Social W Health Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives (Paperback)

This collection of essays examines the interrelations between illness disability health society and culture. The contributors examine how narratives have emerged and been utilized within these areas to help those who have experienced d injury... more

Routledge Studies in Health in Africa Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa: Emerging Evidence and Intervention Strategies (Paperback)

This book provides an overview of the current epidemiology of the HIV epidemic among young people in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) and examines the efforts to confront and reduce the high level of new HIV infections amongst young people. Taking a... more

Routledge Studies in Health and Social W Social Housing in Transition Countries Book 10 (Hardcover)

This volume intends to fill the gap in the range of publications about the post-transition social housing policy developments in Central and Eastern Europe by delivering critical evaluations about the past two decades of developments in selected... more

Routledge Studies in Health Management Entrepreneurship in Healthcare (Paperback)

Entrepreneurship in the Healthcare sector has received increased attention over the last two decades both in terms of scholarly research and number of innovative enterprises. Entrepreneurial activities and innovations have emerged from and will... more

Routledge Studies in Public Health Population Mental Health: Evidence Policy and Public Health Practice (Hardcover)

Over the last century public health efforts such as immunization safer food practices public health education and promotion improved sanitation and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The... more

Routledge Studies in Public Health Global Health Disputes and Disparities: A Critical Appraisal of International Law and Population Health (Hardcover)

Global Health Disputes and Disparities explores inequalities in health around the world looking particularly at the opportunity for and limitations of international law to promote population health by examining its intersection with human rights trade... more

Routledge Studies in Public Health Alcohol Tobacco and Obesity: Morality Mortality and the New Public Health (Hardcover)

Although drinking smoking and obesity have attracted social and moral condemnation to varying degrees for more than two hundred years over the past few decades they have come under intense attack from the field of public health as an unholy trinity of... more

Routledge Studies in Public Health Planning in Health Promotion Work: An Empowerment Model (Hardcover)

Community development planning and partnerships have become important terms in health promotion but up until now debate around these concepts have been discussed more in planning science than in public health literature. Roar Amdam draws on theories... more

Routledge Studies in Public Health Women s Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine (Paperback)

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business internationally in particular with regards to a range of women s health issues. With this context in mind Women s Health and Complementary and Integrative Medicine constitutes a... more

Routledge Malaysian Studies Health Care in Malaysia: The Dynamics of Provision Financing and Access (Paperback)

The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of: the evolution of the system since... more

Routledge Studies in the Social History Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean 1800-1968 (Hardcover)

Health and medicine in colonial environments is one of the newest areas in the history of medicine but one in which the Caribbean is conspicuously absent. Yet the complex and fascinating history of the Caribbean borne of the ways European colonialism... more

Routledge International Studies in Healt Health Economic Development and Household Poverty: From Understanding to Action (Paperback)

Accessible and edited by authors based at a top institution this book provides readers with an excellent summary in an easy-to-read style of this burgeoning field of research. In this volume Bennett Gilson and Mills have gathered together essays... more

Routledge Studies in Modern British Hist Public Health in the British Empire: Intermediaries Subordinates and the Practice of Public Health 1850-1960 (Hardcover)

Over the last several decades historians of public health in Britain s colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that... more

Routledge Studies in Science Technology Global Public Health Vigilance: Creating a World on Alert (Hardcover)

Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health. This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual... more

Routledge International Studies in Healt Efficiency Measurement in Health and Health Care (Paperback)

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area is confusing and impregnable Hollingsworth and Peacock show the... more

Routledge Studies on China in Transition The Chinese State s Retreat from Health (Hardcover)

Over the post-Mao period the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized... more

Routledge Studies in Human Resource Deve Human Resource Development in the Public Sector: The Case of Health and Social Care (Paperback)

Across Europe and the world countries are attempting to develop their health and social policies and practices to address the global challenge of increasing demand and pressurized supply created by ageing populations emerging technologies and finite... more

Routledge Studies in the Sociology of He Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health (Hardcover)

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause construction and consequence of madness. Looking beyond the affected individual to their social political economic... more

Routledge Studies in Development Economi Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care in India: Lessons for developing countries Book 67 (Hardcover)

Public-private partnerships are increasingly advocated to alleviate deficiencies in the public health system as well as to reduce economic stress on those who seek services from an expensive burgeoning and unregulated private health sector. Focusing on... more

Routledge Studies in Human Resource Deve Managing Healthy Organizations: Worksite Health Promotion and the New Self-Management Paradigm (Hardcover)

During the past two decades corporate management has come to take an active role in health promotion programming for employees offering health education screenings therapy and even leisure initiatives. However little attention has been given to how... more

Routledge Studies in Employment and Work The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety (Hardcover)

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia Europe and North America the chapters traverse... more

Routledge Research in Health Law Workplace Mental Health Law: Comparative Perspectives (Hardcover)

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary study of occupational mental health legislation in seven countries. The work presents a study of the laws policies and legal interpretations to help prevent mental health problems from occurring in... more

Routledge Revivals Fighting Poverty: Caring for Children Parents the Elderly and Health (Paperback)

First published in 1999 this volume is the fifth in a series on international studies of issues in social security. The series is initiated by the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS). One of its aims is to confront different... more

Routledge Advances in Sociology: Self-Care: Embodiment Personal Autonomy and the Shaping of Health Consciousness (Hardcover)

This book examines the widespread cultural and political consequences of the proliferation of popular health advice. It provides a key theoretical contribution to the sociological study of health and embodiment by illuminating the processes of social... more

Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Women and Exercise: The Body Health and Consumerism Book 05 (Hardcover)

Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns obesity among women is rising and studies indicate that women are generally less physically... more

Routledge Introductions to Applied Lingu Exploring Health Communication: Language in Action (Paperback)

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies or taking an introductory MA course as well as... more

Routledge Communication Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behavior Change (Paperback)

This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco drugs AIDS family planning heart disease childhood... more

Routledge Studies in Critical Realism Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A Critical Realist General Theory of Interdisciplinarity (Paperback)

In this book the authors provide a much-needed general theory of interdisciplinarity and relate it to health/wellbeing research and professional practice. In so doing they make it possible for practitioners of the different disciplines to communicate... more

Routledge Studies in Development Economi Undernutrition Agriculture and Public Provisioning: The Impact on Women and Children in India (Paperback)

Using quantitative techniques this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food water sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India. The linkages are cogently explored... more

Routledge Studies in the Sociology of He Dementia as Social Experience: Valuing Life and Care (Hardcover)

A diagnosis of dementia changes the ways people engage with each other - for those living with dementia as well their families caregivers friends health professionals neighbours shopkeepers and the community. Medical understandings necessary as they... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History India s Princely States: People Princes and Colonialism (Paperback)

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India s princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices... more

Routledge Studies in Religion: Piety and Patienthood in Medieval Islam (Hardcover)

How did pious medieval Muslims experience health and disease? Rooted in the prophet s experiences with medicine and healing Muslim pietistic literature developed cosmologies in which physical suffering and medical interventions interacted with... more

Routledge Studies in Religion Religion Family and Chinese Youth Development: An Empirical View (Paperback)

Religion is a fundamental cultural factor profoundly influential on human mental health and behavioural choices and in addition family is the most proximal and intimate socialization agent contributive to youth development. Religion Family and Chinese... more

Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport: Young People Physical Activity and the Everyday (Hardcover)

Despite society s current preoccupation with interrelated issues such as obesity increasingly sedentary lifestyles and children s health there has until now been little published research that directly addresses the place and meaning of physical... more

Routledge Studies in Sustainability Tran Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems (Hardcover)

Health systems have long been considered key determinants of well-being within modern societies a valuable resource which has faced a series of reform initiatives throughout the past decades. These reforms have been used to manage the cost of... more

Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai Book 01 (Hardcover)

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS the World Bank and... more

Routledge Communication Communication and Aging (Paperback)

A comprehensive examination of communication and its role in the aging process considering individuals relationships and health issues. For students and scholars in communication aging studies health areas. more