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41. Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools

    Edited by Peter Aggleton, Catherine Dennison, Ian Warwick

    The contribution schools can make to improving students’ health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised. Schools that have embraced this role and adapted policies and practices to create an environment in which young people feel safe and happy have reported broad and significant gains. Through...

    Published January 13th 2010 by Routledge
42. A General Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine

    Edited by Men Jiuzhang, Guo Lei

    Established by the Western Han dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is currently finding increased acceptance. A General Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine explores the thinking behind TCM, its philosophy-based theory, and its cutting-edge uses in today’s...

    Published November 11th 2009 by CRC Press
43. Trauma, Dissociation and Health

    Casual Mechanisms and Multidimensional Pathways

    Edited by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Bridget Klest

    This book explores the impact of trauma and dissociation on physical health throughout the lifespan. Important chronic conditions, such as cardiovascular disease and chronic pain, are examined. In addition, trauma in childbearing women is considering, specifically examining the short- and long-term...

    Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
44. Gender Equity in Health

    The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action

    Edited by Gita Sen, Piroska Östlin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

    This volume brings together experts from a variety of disciplines, such as medicine, biology, sociology, epidemiology, anthropology, economics and political science, who focus on three areas: health disparities and inequity due to gender, the specific problems women face in meeting the highest...

    Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
45. Nutrition and Football

    The FIFA/FMARC Consensus on Sports Nutrition

    Edited by Ron Maughan

    Nutrition and Football is a FIFA endorsed book which provides the first formal scientific consensus on players’ energy use fluid, and optimal nutritional requirements. Including: nutrition for pre-season, training, match play and in different climates analysis of the energy and metabolic...

    Published September 28th 2009 by Routledge
46. Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, Third Edition

    Edited by Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens

    Life Care Planning is an advanced collaborative practice concerned with coordinating, accessing, evaluating, and monitoring necessary services for individuals with significant medical adversity. This handbook provides a comprehensive resource for all people involved with catastrophic impairments...

    Published September 20th 2009 by CRC Press
47. Responding to Drug Misuse

    Research and Policy Priorities in Health and Social Care

    Edited by Susanne MacGregor

    Responding to Drug Misuse provides a unique insight into the current shape of the drugs treatment system in England. Reporting findings from research linked to the government's ten year drugs strategy Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the book places these in the context of policy, practice...

    Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
48. Global Institutions and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

    Responding to an International Crisis

    By Franklyn Lisk

    Series: Global Institutions

    Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides a clear and incisive analysis of the different perspectives of the global response to HIV/AIDS, and the role of the different global institutions involved. The text highlights HIV/AIDS as an exceptional global epidemic in terms of the...

    Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
49. Physical Activity and Health

    The Evidence Explained, 2nd Edition

    By Adrianne E. Hardman, David J. Stensel

    Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationships between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the benefits of exercise in the prevention and treatment of a wide range of important conditions. Now in a fully updated and revised edition,...

    Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge
50. Globalization and Health

    Pathways, Evidence and Policy

    Edited by Ronald Labonté, Ted Schrecker, Corinne Packer, Vivien Runnels

    Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

    Contemporary globalization has had tremendous impact on health equity across the globe. However, no volume has systematically analyzed the relationship between globalization and global trends in health outcomes. This book consolidates and updates the findings of a global research project...

    Published April 27th 2009 by Routledge