Health Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

   By Mary Ann Cutter

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Why We Take Drugs

   Seeking Excess and Communion in the Modern World

   By Tom Yardley

   In older cultures, the use of intoxicant drugs was integrated into the rhythms of social existence and bounded by rituals and taboos that ensured their dangerous forces were contained and channelled. In modern western societies, by contrast, the state and the institutions of society have washed...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins

   Defining the Limits

   Edited by Myles Fisher, Simon Cook

   Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book...

   Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnational Social Support

   Edited by Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer, Cornelia Schweppe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
6. Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia

   Edited by Christian Aspalter, Yasuo Uchida, Robin Gauld

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia

   This book addresses the global need for more comparative studies on health policy and health care systems, given the rise in recent decades of societal aging, modern mass diseases, economic globalization, and resulting permanent fiscal austerity of governments which have fundamentally altered the...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Health Professionals and Trust

   The Cure for Healthcare Law and Policy

   By Mark Henaghan

   Series: Biomedical Law & Ethics Library

   An ever increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professionals and health researchers relate to their patients. In this book, Mark Henaghan argues that the result of this trend towards heightened regulation has...

   Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
8. Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

   Edited by Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttir, Mary Ellen Purkis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare

   Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
9. Public Policy and the Public Interest

   By Lok-sang Ho

   As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature can policy makers address their foremost needs and anticipate how people may respond to specific designs in policy. This way policy makers can avoid "...

   Published July 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. An Introduction to the Geography of Health

    By Peter Anthamatten, Helen Hazen

    Health issues such as the emergence of infectious diseases, the potential influence of global warming on human health, and the escalating strain of increasing longevity and chronic conditions on healthcare systems are of growing importance in an increasingly peopled and interconnected world. A...

    Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge