Health and Social Care Books

New and Published Books

1. The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation

   Edited by Monna Arvinen-Barrow, Natalie Walker

   Athletes routinely use psychological skills and interventions for performance enhancement but, perhaps surprisingly, not always to assist in recovery from injury. This book demonstrates the ways in which athletes and practitioners can transfer psychological skills to an injury and rehabilitation...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Occupational Safety and Hygiene

   Edited by Pedro Arezes, João Santos Baptista, Monica P. Barroso, Paula Carneiro, Patrício Cordeiro, Nelson Costa, Rui B. Melo, A. Sergio Miguel, Gonçalo Perestrelo

   Occupational Safety and Hygiene presents selected papers from the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene – SHO2013 (Guimarães, Portugal, 14-15 February 2013), which was organized by the Portuguese Society for Occupational Safety and Hygiene (SPOSHO). The contributions from 15...

   Published April 1st 2013 by CRC Press
4. Health and Human Rights in a Changing World

   3rd Edition

   Edited by Michael Grodin, Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin, George Annas

   Health and Human Rights in a Changing World is a comprehensive and contemporary collection of readings and original material examining health and human rights from a global perspective. Editors Grodin, Tarantola, Annas, and Gruskin are well-known for their previous two volumes (published by...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Parenting in Global Perspective

   Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

   Edited by Charlotte Faircloth, Diane M. Hoffman, Linda L. Layne

   Series: Relationships and Resources

   Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of ‘parenting’. Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of ‘parenting’ as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Psychological Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency

   New Directions in Research and Intervention

   Edited by Patricia Kerig

   Recent years have seen an explosion of new research dedicated to understanding the link between psychological trauma and juvenile delinquency. Building on the work of the previous decade which uncovered shocking rates of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress among juvenile justice-involved youth...

   Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
7. Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

   Edited by Jacqueline Broerse, John Grin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Over the past decades, a series of reform initiatives have been going through health systems of advanced welfare states, including the control of cost development, the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies, dissatisfaction about quality of treatment or quality of life, and the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Structural Approaches in Public Health

   Edited by Marni Sommer, Richard Parker

   That health has many social determinants is well established and a myriad range of structural factors – social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental – are now known to impact on population well-being. Public health practice has started exploring and responding to a range of...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Assessing Common Mental Health and Addiction Issues With Free-Access Instruments

   By Katie M. Sandberg, Taryn E. Richards, Bradley T. Erford

   As healthcare costs rise, so too do the costs of assessment instruments, critical tools for mental health professionals. While some traditional assessment instruments have become prohibitively expensive, as with many other fields, the Internet offers a host of more affordable and equitable...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Perspectives on Elder Abuse

    Edited by Amanda Phelan

    Series: Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy

    Elder abuse has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years in many countries and progress has been made in both understanding and addressing the issue. This volume provides a much-needed international overview of the topic. Opening with an examination of what elder abuse is, Amanda Phelan...

    Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge