Public Health Policy and Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 3rd 2013 by CRC Press
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China

   By Guy Ramsay

   Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series

   With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments, the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese societies acknowledges the importance...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. International Perspectives on Public Health and Palliative Care

   Edited by Libby Sallnow, Suresh Kumar, Allan Kellehear

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Public health approaches to palliative care have been growing in policy importance and practice acceptance. This innovative volume explores the major concepts, practice examples, and practice guidelines for this new approach. The goal of ‘comprehensive care’ – seamless support for patients as they...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Food and Public Health

   Contemporary Issues and Future Directions

   Edited by Wendy Wills, Alizon Draper, Ulla Gustafsson

   This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today’s society. Contributors highlight the lack of global regulation in the food supply chain and explore the common tendency to leave regulation to markets and to individual consumer...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition

   By Samuel Mullen

   An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often...

   Published January 21st 2013 by CRC Press
9. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

   Coping with Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Progress or Collapse

    The Crises of Market Greed

    By Roberto De Vogli

    Human progress is heading toward collapse. There are converging ecological crises looming on the horizon: climate change, peak oil, water shortages, fish depletion and food scarcities. The world is on a collision course against the limits of the ecosystem. Modern societies are consuming,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge