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Public Health: Building Innovative Practice

WEBPublic Health: Building Innovative Practice examines the main challenges facing public health today and fosters an informed and creative response by practitioners. It explores …

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Social Aspects of Health, Illness and Healthcare

WEBThis core textbook is the ideal companion text for students studying the social aspects of health and illness, whether it is as part of a health studies degree, nursing or other …

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A Reader in Promoting Public Health: Challenge and …

WEBThe second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public …

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Understanding Health and Illness

WEBHealth and illness are interesting issues to study because they can mean different things to different people, at different times and in different places. This complexity has …

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Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health

WEBTheory and Research in Promoting Public Health is an important text that addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary …

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Vulnerable Groups in Health and Social Care

WEBCarefully-researched and highly readable this textbook looks at the experiences and health and social needs of key 'vulnerable groups'. It presents an engaging social science …

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Spirituality as a determinant of health

WEBSpirituality a recognised dimension of health in the field of health promotion and public health (Scriven, 2010). Good health and wellbeing includes spiritual health …

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The Social context of health and health work

WEBThe Social Context of Health and Health Work breaks new ground by linking together sociology of health and social policy perspectives. Linda Jones argues that health and …

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Using metaphor in healthcare: physical health

WEBHealth and illness, and the emotions associated with them, are among the experiences that we often talk about through metaphors. As is the case more generally, these metaphors …

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Simulation: informing and enhancing curriculum in Health, …

WEBThe School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care (HWSC) has not yet fully exploited the use of bespoke simulation within its curriculum, rather it has borrowed or adapted simulation …

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Including Children with Chronic Health Conditions in Early …

WEBThis paper sheds light on how chronic health conditions impact upon concepts of inclusion in children’s Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in England; it draws upon …

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An exploration of the ‘6Cs’ as a set of values for nursing practice

WEBa lack of compassion and a need to refocus on values, the Department of Health (DH) in England published a new strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff: ‘Compassion in …

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Open Research Online

WEBOpen Research Online. The Open University’s repository of research publications and other research outputs. Understanding Mental Health and Wellbeing in Sport. Book Section. …

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Black Women and Public Health in the UK

WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO, 1981) had developed the Health for All by the Year 2000 initiative, and there were thirty-eight targets focused on reducing inequalities in …

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Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours

WEBHealth-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions …

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Playing anxiety and depression away: Serious games for mental …

WEBPlaying anxiety and depression away: Serious games for mental health problems in children and adolescents. In: Bennett, Sophie; Myles-Hooton, Pamela; Schleider, Jessica and …

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Making decisions in mental healthcare

WEBPeople who are involved within the decision-making processes of mental healthcare understand and respond to distress in differing ways with important consequences for …

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The Open University

WEBIn 2018 the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), in association with the Young Health Movement, published #StatusofMind: Social media and young people’s mental …

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Legal Principles of Responsibility and Accountability in …

WEBprofessionals remain accountable for work delegated to health care workers who are responsible for its fulfilment. In order to be truly accountable one must be able to defend …

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Managing and marketing health services

WEBThe organisation and management of health care services is a central theme within public policy across the post-industrial world. Demographic, socio-economic and technological …

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Promoting the public health: continuity and change over two …

WEBA Reader in Promoting Public Health: Challenge and Controversy. London: SAGE Publications Ltd., pp. 12–18. Viewing alternatives. Look up in Google Scholar. No digital …

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