Health and Social Care - Research
Parenting and disability
Disabled parents' experiences of raising children
This book reports on the first substantial UK study of parenting, disability and mental health. It examines the views of parents and children in 75 families. Covering a broad spectrum of issues facing disabled parents and their families, it provides a comprehensive review of relevant policy issues.
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Working futures?
Disabled people, policy and social inclusion
Working futures? looks at the current effectiveness and future scope for enabling policy in the field of disability and employment.
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Modernising health care
Reinventing professions, the state and the public
Modernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship.
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Placing health
Neighbourhood renewal, health improvement and complexity
Placing health tackles the question of how health is affected by where people live, through an examination of England's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and its health targets. It evaluates the evidence base for the strategy, compares experiences from similar countries, and explores the relevance of complexity theory to area-based health improvement.
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Health inequalities and welfare resources
Continuity and change in Sweden
How welfare states influence population health has long been debated but less well tested by research. This book presents new evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state on the lives of citizens. The analysis and theoretical approaches developed in the book have wide implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavia.
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Ethics
Contemporary challenges in health and social care
Ethics has been addressed in health care, but relatively little attention has been paid to the subject in the social care sector. This book redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields. The importance of this approach is reflected in the growing emphasis on ethical issues in research and practice.
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Rethinking palliative care
A social role valorisation approach
This book's striking message is that palliative care does not deliver on its aims to value people who are dying and make death and dying a natural part of life. Applying Social Role Valorisation, it argues for the de-institutionalisation of palliative care and recommends an alternative framework to current approaches.
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Challenging health inequalities
From Acheson to Choosing Health
This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health
inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for
tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges.
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Community health and wellbeing
Action research on health inequalities
This book argues that the traditional government approach of exhorting individuals to live healthier lifestyles is not enough -Â action to promote public health needs to take place not just through public agencies, but also by engaging community assets and resources in their broadest sense.
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Rethinking professional governance
International directions in healthcare
This original and innovative book opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce.
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Private and confidential?
Handling personal information in the social and health services
This book examines key philosophical, ethical, legal and professional practice issues in the area of privacy and confidentiality and explores their implications for policy and practice.
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Healthcare in the UK
Understanding continuity and change
This book contends that attempts to reform the NHS can only be understood by reference to both the wider social and political context, and to the organisational legacies present within the NHS itself. It aims to give students an understanding that demonstrates an appreciation of the interactions between health policy, organisation and society.
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