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Global Research Ethics - Case Studies from International Research Contexts (Hardcover): Caren J. Frost, Lisa H. Gren, L. Scott... Global Research Ethics - Case Studies from International Research Contexts (Hardcover)
Caren J. Frost, Lisa H. Gren, L. Scott Benson, Margaret Carlson
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Global Research Ethics is a guide for students and their instructors as well as practitioners and researchers to understand topics linked to research ethics from a more global perspective. Research plays a key role in identifying health disparity trends and evaluating interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations at the individual, local, national, and global levels. Conducting ethically sound research is imperative in these contexts. This book (a) uses case studies to offer examples of current research ethical dilemmas and (b) considers regulatory and cultural frameworks in a number of country contexts that highlight diverse methods of identifying and managing these ethical dilemmas. Chapters cover different types (groups) of participants, issues in research, and ways of doing research; then each chapter looks at least three exemplar case studies with at least two analytical commentaries. Case studies include health and social care research, and originate from countries such as Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the US and UK. The different viewpoints showcased will allow for dialogue to ensue about the ways in which populations and topics in research need to be conceptualized. Global Research Ethics is suitable for all undergraduates and postgraduates on research methods courses in the social and health sciences. It provides academic researchers, students, and community partners with guidelines to reflect on as they develop their own research studies.

Distance, Equity and Older People's Experiences in the Nordic Periphery - Centering the Local (Hardcover): Paivi Naskali,... Distance, Equity and Older People's Experiences in the Nordic Periphery - Centering the Local (Hardcover)
Paivi Naskali, Shahnaj Begum, Minna Zechner, Joan R Harbison
R4,050 Discovery Miles 40 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond. It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older people's everyday lives and practices. Contributions from leading experts provides interdisciplinary investigations into the experiences and stories of older people in the Northern periphery. These insights demonstrate the utility of the concept distance when reflecting on the central aspects of contemporary ageing societies. The book explores key themes such as care, age politics, technology, intergenerational relations and migration, providing perspectives that are applicable across a variety of international geographical contexts. This innovative book offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution with critical new perspections on ageing in relation to distances. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in sociology, human geography, health and social care, ageing and gerontological studies, gender studies and Arctic studies.

Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist (Hardcover): Maricel G Santos, Rachel Showstack, Glenn Martinez, ew Colcher, Dalia... Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist (Hardcover)
Maricel G Santos, Rachel Showstack, Glenn Martinez, ew Colcher, Dalia Magana
R1,418 Discovery Miles 14 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A rich exploration of health disparities in U.S. linguistically minoritized communities - and the steps applied linguists can take to advance health equity A valuable resource for jumpstarting cross-disciplinary conversations about language, power, and health Offers ideas for service-learning projects, community-engaged research directions, and coalition-building Keywords, end-of-chapter questions and extension activities support reader engagement Afterword by Dr. Pilar Ortega, bilingual physician and founder of the National Association of Medical Spanish

The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover): Marlene Goldman The Social, Aesthetic, and Medical Implications of Performing Shame - Interdisciplinary Approaches (Hardcover)
Marlene Goldman
R4,045 Discovery Miles 40 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Performing Shame shows how simulations of shame by North American writers and artists have the power to resist its withering influence. Chapter 1 analyses the projects’ key terms: shame, performance, and empathy. Chapter 2 probes the book’s key terms in light of a real-world study of an "empathy device" that aims to teach the public what it feels like to be disabled. Chapter 3 analyses how theatre intervenes in the practice of medicine via standardized patient actors who engage in role play to enhance medical students’ empathy for patients coping with shame. Chapter 4 moves from the clinic to the street to examine how The Raging Grannies’ public performances contest ageist constructions of older women’s bodies and desires. Chapter 5 shifts further from the bedside to the book by exploring Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home, which challenges the shame projected onto homosexuals. Bringing the study full circle, the final chapter offers close readings of the stories of Alice Munro; like empathy devices, her texts restage scenes of shame to undo its malevolent spell. This book will be of interest to scholars in theatre and performance studies, health humanities, gender studies, queer studies, literary studies, disability studies, and affect studies.

The Book of My Son Reuben - A Psychologist on the Loss of His Child (Hardcover): David Cohen The Book of My Son Reuben - A Psychologist on the Loss of His Child (Hardcover)
David Cohen
R3,745 Discovery Miles 37 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'I wish I had had not had to write this book because then my lovely son Reuben would still be alive,' says David Cohen. 'He was adorable, formidably intelligent, a loving son, a loving brother. He died far too young. He had the bad luck to have two grandparents who had addictive personalities. His efforts to resist the lure of drugs failed. And so did I.' The Book of My Son Reuben is a personal account of how psychologist David Cohen coped - and did not cope - with the death of his son, Reuben. Offering a unique perspective on the experience of parental loss, it offers a personal and analytical exploration of sorrow and guilt, and of what research tells us about trauma and grief. Illustrated throughout with David Cohen's personal insight into how he continues to navigate his loss, this honest book provides deeper understanding of loss for parents who have experienced it, as well as those who support them. The book remembers the many parents who have lost children throughout history and chapters weave personal perspectives with the latest research. It examines the experience of sudden deaths, the failures of society in preventing children from dying, the role of social media, how the loss of a child impacts fathers, siblings and relationships, and the usefulness - and not - of bereavement therapies. A tribute to Reuben's life, this sensitive volume is for those who have experienced loss and want to gain better understanding of their experience, as well as psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors working with families.

Increasing Physical Activity: A Practical Guide - A Practical Guide (Paperback): James M. Rippe Increasing Physical Activity: A Practical Guide - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
James M. Rippe
R1,501 Discovery Miles 15 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Only a fifth of adults in the United States do enough physical activity to meet the guidelines set by Centers for Disease Control. The health benefits of regular physical activity are beyond dispute, yet less than 40% of physicians routinely counsel their patients on the importance of physical activity. Increasing Physical Activity: A Practical Guide equips healthcare practitioners to include physical activity counseling in the daily practice of medicine. Written by lifestyle medicine pioneer and cardiologist, Dr James Rippe, this book proves inactivity is a stronger risk factor than other lifestyle factors for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many other diseases. It provides evidence-based information on the role of physical activity in preventing and treating chronic conditions and includes practical strategies for healthcare practitioners to prescribe this powerful method to enhance both short and long-term health and quality of life. Features: Specific chapters explain the role of physical activity in reduction of risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, dementia and many other chronic conditions. Chapters begin with bulleted, key points and conclude with a list of clinical applications. Strategies are provided to encourage previously sedentary individuals to adopt regular physical activity. Physical activity is placed in the context of other lifestyle medicine concepts including maintenance of a healthy body weight, following sound nutritional practices, stress reduction and other practices which impact on health and quality of life. Written for healthcare practitioners at all levels, this is a user-friendly, evidence-based manual for healthcare practitioners looking to incorporate more physical activity counseling into either general medicine or subspecialty practices.

Shifting Food Facts - Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture (Paperback): Alissa Overend Shifting Food Facts - Dietary Discourse in a Post-Truth Culture (Paperback)
Alissa Overend
R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of how food knowledge comes to be shaped and why we see pendulum swings when it comes to the question of what to eat. As food facts peak and peril in the face of conflicting dietary advice and nutritional evidence, this book situates shifting food truths through a critical analysis of how healthy eating is framed and contested, particularly amid fluctuating truth claims of a "post-truth" culture. It explores what a post-truth epistemological framework can offer critical food and health studies, considers the type of questions this may enable, and looks at what can be gained by relinquishing rigid empirical pursuits of singular dietary truths. In focusing too intently on the separation between food fact and food fiction, the book argues that politically dangerous and epistemically narrow ideas of one way to eat "healthy" or "right" are perpetuated. Drawing on a range of archival materials related to food and health and interviews with registered dietitians, this book offers various examples of shifting food truths, from macro-historical genealogies to contemporary case studies of dairy, wheat, and meat. Providing a rich and innovative analysis, this book offers news ways to think about, and act upon, our increasingly complex food landscapes. It does so by loosening our empirical Western reliance on singular food facts in favour of an articulation of contextual food truths that situate the problems of health as problems of living, not as individualistic problems of eating. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners working in food studies, food politics, sociology, environmental geography, health, nutrition, and cultural studies.

Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare - An Exemplar for Practice in Resource Limited Settings (Paperback): Mackfallen... Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare - An Exemplar for Practice in Resource Limited Settings (Paperback)
Mackfallen G. Anasel, Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Albino Kalolo
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health system inputs such as human resources, health commodities and financial resources hence lowering the quality of services delivered. Thus, this guide was developed through collaborative efforts envisioned to respond to the needs of improving good governance practices at the primary healthcare level in resource-limited healthcare systems. Key Features: * Improves the management of primary health facilities. * Helps the health facility managers and teams at primary healthcare level to effectively and efficiently lead and manage the facilities. * Enumerates practical scenarios on health issues that commonly occur in health facilities and provides alternative ways of addressing the issues raised in the scenarios.

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Hardcover): Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson Alcohol, Crime and Public Health (Hardcover)
Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Jennifer Ferguson
R4,036 Discovery Miles 40 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alcohol, Crime and Public Health explores the issue of drinking in the criminal justice system, providing an overview of the topic from both a criminal justice and public health perspective. The majority of prisoners in the UK (70%) have an alcohol use disorder, and evidence tells us that risky drinking is high amongst those in contact with all areas of the criminal justice system. Uniquely, this book brings both a criminal justice and public health perspective to the topic. The book opens by exploring the levels of crime attributed to alcohol, the policy context of alcohol and crime, and the prevalence of risky alcohol consumption in the criminal justice system. The following chapters examine risky drinking amongst men, women and young people in the criminal justice system. The final chapters look at the efficacy of psychosocial interventions for risky drinking in the criminal justice system, and look forward to how researchers and practitioners can work together to produce research in the criminal justice system. Written in an accessible and concise style, Alcohol, Crime and Public Health will be of great use to students of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Health as well as the wider area of Public and Social Policy in relation to alcohol and crime.

Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Hardcover): Kathy Danko-McGhee Viewing Art with Babies - First Encounters (Hardcover)
Kathy Danko-McGhee
R4,038 Discovery Miles 40 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as two months old. Such experiences can help to nurture early literacy and receptive language skills, sensory stimulation, and early brain development. Based on the author's research with babies in New Zealand, Australia, Romania, England, and the U.S., the book provides the reader with information about early brain, vision, sensory and language development, as well as the aesthetic preferences of babies. Danko-McGhee provides details about the type of art that babies like, how to display art in the learning environment, and how to interact with a baby when viewing art. Case studies of international museums, national museums and community agencies that have had success with engaging babies in art viewing experiences will be included in the book as a way to demonstrate how theory and research can be successfully put into practice. Viewing Art with Babies details practical ways that museum practitioners, early childhood and community educators and parents can provide art-viewing experiences in the museum, early childhood classroom or even their own home. It will be of interest to practitioners and parents around the world, as well as those engaged in the study of museum education.

Criminology of the Domestic (Hardcover): Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe Criminology of the Domestic (Hardcover)
Pamela Davies, Michael Rowe
R4,044 Discovery Miles 40 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bringing together a range of perspectives, this book establishes a criminology of the domestic, paying particular attention to emerging spatial and relational reconfigurations. We move beyond criminologies of public and urban domains to consider over-looked non-public locales, and crimes and harms that occur in the home and other private spaces. Developed in the context of the COVID-19 lockdowns, where distinctions between public and private became increasingly untenable, the book considers how the pandemic has accelerated new patterns of behaviour, enabled by technology and shifting social relations. Drawing on a range of criminological topics, including victimisation, offending, property and violent crime, consumption, deviance and leisure, and zemiology, the book argues that the domestic sphere, and its relation to the public realm, needs to be more carefully conceptualised if criminology is to respond to new spatial and relational dimensions of changing lifestyles. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, politics, geography, history, gender, surveillance and security and all those interested in a criminology of the domestic sphere.

COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age (Paperback): Andrea Monti, Raymond Wacks COVID-19 and Public Policy in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Andrea Monti, Raymond Wacks
R1,044 Discovery Miles 10 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The volume: • Is one of the first projects on the COVID-19 / Coronavirus pandemic and public policy • Focuses on the intersections between public health, law, security studies and cyber studies • Will be of great interest to professionals in the field of public policy, especially those working on technology and society, security studies, law, media studies and public health

Public Health Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Management (Paperback): Dorairaj Prabhakaran, K. Srinath Reddy,... Public Health Approach to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention & Management (Paperback)
Dorairaj Prabhakaran, K. Srinath Reddy, Shuchi Anand
R1,536 Discovery Miles 15 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Key Features: 1. Covers existing and emerging issues in cardiovascular disease epidemiology and prevention. 2. Has a multi-disciplinary approach in content and audience. 3. Connects with health systems and relevant sustainable development goals 4. Provides case studies for enabling readers to understand and apply evidence-based solutions to key public health issues. 5. Has inputs from globally renowned public health experts.

The Minister's Guide to Psychological Disorders and Treatments (Hardcover, 3rd edition): W. Brad Johnson, William L.... The Minister's Guide to Psychological Disorders and Treatments (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
W. Brad Johnson, William L. Johnson
R3,628 Discovery Miles 36 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

• Continues to be an indispensable text for mental health professionals and pastoral counsellors. • Updated according to the latest empirical research and DSM-V. • Revised chapters significantly cover issues regarding diversity and culture which clergy may struggle with, as well as diagnostic interviewing and cultural humility. • Written in a consistent, easy-to-follow structure in each chapter includes case example, introduction, key indicators, and recommendations • Updated citations and references to psychological disorders throughout, with special emphasis on the family. • helps pastors understand some of the most widely used and evidence based treatments and what to look for when referring to professionals (e.g., licensure, board certification, specialty training and certification, etc.). • highlights the limited role of medication for most mental health difficulties and when its use is indicated. • Members of the clergy are frequently the first person a parishioner seeks out for support, guidance, and assistance when grappling with many of life’s challenges and problems. Ensuring that members of the clergy are appropriately trained to serve in this role is of vital importance

Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare - An Exemplar for Practice in Resource Limited Settings (Hardcover): Mackfallen... Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare - An Exemplar for Practice in Resource Limited Settings (Hardcover)
Mackfallen G. Anasel, Ntuli A. Kapologwe, Albino Kalolo
R2,275 Discovery Miles 22 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Good leadership and governance at all levels of the healthcare system is necessary for better performance of the system and health outcomes. Lack of good leadership and governance practices can lead to misuse of health system inputs such as human resources, health commodities and financial resources hence lowering the quality of services delivered. Thus, this guide was developed through collaborative efforts envisioned to respond to the needs of improving good governance practices at the primary healthcare level in resource-limited healthcare systems. Key Features: * Improves the management of primary health facilities. * Helps the health facility managers and teams at primary healthcare level to effectively and efficiently lead and manage the facilities. * Enumerates practical scenarios on health issues that commonly occur in health facilities and provides alternative ways of addressing the issues raised in the scenarios.

Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care - Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice (Hardcover): Kenneth E.... Patient and Staff Voices in Primary Care - Learning from Dr Ockrim and her Glasgow Medical Practice (Hardcover)
Kenneth E. Collins
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

• Provides a historical context for the developments in health over several decades prior to the study • Shows how oral history methods have increasingly been used in medical history research and explores the benefits of this approach • Covers many of the themes of the oral history which enabled and encouraged patients to comment on what was important to them in their encounter with health care • Follows the increasing acceptance of women in medicine, demonstrating how women doctors were viewed by patients within the practice compared to changes in the wider society • Presents a ‘history from below’, using voices that are not normally heard in the medical discourse illustrating the importance of the doctor-patient interface

The Pandemic in Britain - COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (Hardcover): Sean Creaven The Pandemic in Britain - COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (Hardcover)
Sean Creaven
R4,055 Discovery Miles 40 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a political analysis and sociological critique of the UK government's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, interpreting the inadequacies of government policy with regard to COVID-19 as the results of neoliberal ideology, the protection of corporate interests, Brexit nationalism, and the peculiarities of a British model of capitalism based on international trade and labour market precarity. Arguing that institutionalised corporate-capitalist control of state and science generates new and growing public health risks, and that consumer-driven individualism has eroded community life and the protections this might offer against pandemics, it contends that the UK government's catastrophic response to the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of peculiarly British socioeconomic and political phenomena. The Pandemic in Britain will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy and politics with interests in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as neoliberal ideology and its manifestation in political life.

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction - Training for Success (Paperback): Melissa Hawkins, Kenneth Backman,... Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction - Training for Success (Paperback)
Melissa Hawkins, Kenneth Backman, Francis A. McGuire
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners to start a similar program. This book contains exercises that will help you train colleagues and volunteers for these specific programs and includes criteria for activity evaluations. Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction will help you implement programs that enable older adults to build friendships, pass down their skills and knowledge to adolescents, and provide youths with positive role models.Discussing the factors that often limit the interaction of older adults with youths, this text stresses the importance of conveying information and history to younger generations. You will learn why the exchange between different generations is crucial to society and to the improvement of the community in which you live. Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction provides you with proven suggestions and methods that will make your program successful, including: examining Howe-To Industries, a program that teaches entrepreneurial skills to youths through older adults focusing on activities between older adults and youths that address aging sensitivity and racial and ethnic understanding defining the roles of a mentor, including teacher, trainer, developer of talent, and counselor increasing support and understanding in your community by defining target markets and selling the project to the public describing the aspects of group dynamics and how group decisionmaking methods are used to assess the success of the program and its volunteers understanding the community where participants live in order to address issues important to them, such as poverty and other social problems Containing sample handouts, self-evaluations, and detailed lessons for different types of programs, this book offers you guidelines that apply to participants that have a variety of needs within different communities. Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success will enable you to help older adults remain an active and essential part of these communities by teaching youths valuable life skills they may not receive from anyone else.

Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy - An Intervention for Children and Adolescents after Trauma (Paperback): Cathi Spooner Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy - An Intervention for Children and Adolescents after Trauma (Paperback)
Cathi Spooner
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy presents an essential roadmap for therapists working with traumatized youth. Exploring trauma and attachment through a neurobiological focus, the book lays out a flexible framework for practitioners treating young clients within the context of their family relationships. Chapters demonstrate how techniques of play and expressive therapy can be integrated into work with different developmental stages, while providing the tools needed to fully incorporate the family into the healing process. The book also provides clinical examples and guidance on the ethical decision-making needed to effectively implement attachment work and facilitate positive change. Written in an accessible style, Attachment-Focused Family Play Therapy is an important resource for mental health professionals who work with traumatized children, adolescents, and adults.

Participatory Design and Social Transformation - Images and Narratives of Crisis and Change (Hardcover): John A. Bruce Participatory Design and Social Transformation - Images and Narratives of Crisis and Change (Hardcover)
John A. Bruce
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Participatory Design and Social Transformation introduces theories and methodologies for using image-oriented narratives as modes of inquiry and proposition toward greater justice and equity for society and the environment. Participatory artistic- and design-based research encounters - being, making, and learning with people, things, and situations - are explored through practices that utilize image-oriented and cinematic narratives. Collaborative alliances are invited to consider aesthetics, visuality, attunement, reflection, reciprocity, and care as a means for transdisciplinary approaches that foster generative and ethically responsible conditions toward collective liberation. The design of spectacles is proposed as a way for collective movements to affectively contribute to positive systemic changes from the ground up. In this way, Participatory Design and Social Transformation bridges contemporary advances in design theory and practice with media and art theory, the human and social sciences, and a pedagogy of interdependence. Participatory Design and Social Transformation will be of great interest to both professional and academic communities, providing resources for researchers, artists, designers, activists, students, educators, and leaders engaged with initiatives for transformation.

Medical Management of Radiation Accidents (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Kenneth S. Cohen Medical Management of Radiation Accidents (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Kenneth S. Cohen; Edited by Igor Gusev, Angelina Guskova, Fred A. Mettler
R7,201 Discovery Miles 72 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although radiation accidents are rare and often complex in nature, they are of great concern not only to the patient and involved medical staff, but to the media and public as well. Yet there are few if any comprehensive publications on the medical management of radiation accidents. Medical Management of Radiation Accidents provides a complete reference for those concerned with radiation accidents nationally as well as abroad.

Substantially different from the first edition, which dealt predominantly with radiation accident experiences in the United States, this updated and revised Second Edition represents an international cooperative effort that reflects current international approaches and experiences related to the medical management of radiation accidents. It is organized into areas that include:

o the fundamental aspects, medical characteristics, and classification of radiation accidents
o aspects of radiation on the entire body and specific tissues
o the history of accidents throughout the world
o a general overview of certain types of accidents with specific examples
o a follow-up of persons accidentally exposed to radiation with considerations related to epidemiological studies and a few selected examples
o radiation protection and dosimetry issues, psychological considerations, and accidental exposure of pregnant females.

The majority of this text is a Russian-United States effort; however, it includes work from authors from Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, and Peru.

Illuminating The Dark Side of Occupation - International Perspectives from Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science... Illuminating The Dark Side of Occupation - International Perspectives from Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science (Hardcover)
Rebecca Twinley
R3,977 Discovery Miles 39 770 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This innovative volume introduces Twinley's concept of 'The Dark Side of Occupation'. Focused on less explored and under-addressed occupations, it is an idea which challenges traditional assumptions around the positive, beneficial, health-promoting relationship between occupation and health. Emphasising that people's individual experiences of occupations are not always addressed and may not always be legal, socially acceptable, or conducive to good health, the book investigates how these experiences can be explored theoretically, in practice and research, and in curriculum content for those learning about occupation. Beginning with a discussion of some assumptions and misunderstandings that have been made about the concept, the substantive chapters present and analyse tangible examples of the concept's applicability. This ground-breaking and practice-changing text provides ideas for future research and highlights contemporary, internationally relevant issues and concerns, such as the coronavirus pandemic. This book is an essential purchase for students in occupational therapy and science, and valuable supplementary reading for practitioners. It is also relevant to a wide interdisciplinary audience with an interest in human occupation, encompassing anthropologists, councillors, criminologists, nurses, and human geographers.

The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness (Hardcover): Joanne Bretherton, Nicholas Pleace The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness (Hardcover)
Joanne Bretherton, Nicholas Pleace
R5,829 Discovery Miles 58 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Homelessness brings together many of the world’s leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprising 41 chapters and divided into four sections, the handbook includes A comprehensive introduction to homelessness, referring to history, culture, causation and definitions. Contemporary and historical debates around homelessness in different academic disciplines. Homelessness relating to gender, sexuality, youth, families, migration, rurality, veterans and health. A range of country-specific studies to illustrate the ways in which homelessness is researched and understood around the world. Methods of engagement and modes of analysis. With contributors from around the world and editors from the Centre of Housing Policy at the University of York, this handbook provides a groundbreaking and authoritative guide to theory, method and the primary interdisciplinary debates of today on homelessness. It will be essential reading for students, academics and professionals across the disciplines of sociology, human geography, public policy, housing policy, social policy, social work, economics and criminology.

Nurse Migration in Asia - Emerging Patterns and Policy Responses (Hardcover): Radha Adhikari, Evgeniya Plotnikova Nurse Migration in Asia - Emerging Patterns and Policy Responses (Hardcover)
Radha Adhikari, Evgeniya Plotnikova
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nurse Migration in Asia explores the ever-increasing need for a larger nursing and healthcare workforce in Asia, where countries are undergoing rapid transformation, given economic globalisation and commercial expansion. The book examines some of the major forces that play key roles in the changing dynamics of 21st century nurse and care worker migration in the Asian context; changes which inevitably have global implications. The country case studies range from India, China, Singapore to Japan and the Philippines. Common themes emerge: the rapid and unpredictable nature of nurse migration patterns, including the direction, purpose and frequency of migration; and the changes in professional training, regulation, and workforce policy. Forces causing these shifts include the changing population demography, global and regional economic fluctuations, and finally changing professional roles and gender dynamics. The book analyses the response to these transformations, and how countries adjust their immigration regulations, to attract foreign healthcare professionals. It concludes by highlighting the importance for all countries to remain vigilant as regards the exacerbating workforce crisis, and engage in developing coherent policy governance frameworks to manage healthcare workforce at the national or international levels. A valuable addition to the literature, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of nursing, health and social care workforce studies, population demography, labour markets, gender and international migration studies, globalisation in health and Asian studies.

Work, Health and Wellbeing in the Construction Industry (Paperback): Helen Lingard, Michelle Turner Work, Health and Wellbeing in the Construction Industry (Paperback)
Helen Lingard, Michelle Turner
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book covers a wide range of topics relating to the health and wellbeing of the construction workforce. Based on more than a decade of work examining various aspects of workers' health and wellbeing, the book addresses a key topic in construction management: how the design of work environments, construction processes and organisation of work impact upon construction workers' physical and psychological health. Occupational health is a significant problem for the construction industry. However, the subject of health is usually treated as an afterthought in other books which emphasise safety issues. Traditional management approaches (focused on the prevention of accidents and injuries) are arguably ill-suited to addressing issues of workers' health and wellbeing. The evidenced informed approach in this book provides a rich analysis of how construction workers' health and wellbeing are impacted by working in the construction industry, and critical information about how organisations (and decision-makers within them) can create workplaces and practices that are supportive and enable construction workers to maintain healthy and productive working lives. Including chapter summaries and discussion questions to encourage student readers to reflect on and formulate their own viewpoints about the issues raised in each chapter, the book has the potential to be used as a textbook in undergraduate or postgraduate occupational health and safety, or construction management courses dealing with occupational health and safety. It could also be used as supplementary, recommended reading in undergraduate or postgraduate programs in architecture, engineering or management.

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