Health Policy Books

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1. Singapore's Ageing Population: Managing Healthcare and End of Life Decisions

   Edited by Wing-Cheong Chan

   A rapidly ageing population is the most significant demographic issue confronting Singapore in our lifetime. This has created new and increasing demands on Singapore’s healthcare system and on the families of the older adults. The challenge is in providing a system of care that is humane, effective...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-60975-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

   Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

   On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-61030-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. An Introduction to Health Geography

   By Peter Anthamatten, Helen Hazen

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-49806-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Transnational Social Support

   Edited by Adrienne Chambon, Wolfgang Schröer, Cornelia Schweppe

   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...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88876-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific: Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   This book analyses the development of a leading global health problem and policy responses to it in the context of a demographically, economically and politically very significant region of the world with a view to a better understanding of the double disease burden and the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57543-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Racial Disparity in Mental Health Services: Why Race Still Matters

   Edited by Larry E. Davis

   Differences unfortunately still remain in the way many races are provided health and mental health services. This book comprehensively examines this tough issue across a wide spectrum of areas, including racial identity, intergroup relations, education, socioeconomic conditions, substance abuse,...

   March 2011 | 978-0-7890-3821-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. A Companion to Life Course Studies: the Social and Historical Context of the British Birth Cohort Studies

   Edited by Michael E J Wadsworth, John Bynner

   Course research makes innovative contributions to understanding such challenges for policy as anti-social behaviour, the search for equity of access to resources, including education, training and skills development, and an ageing population. These studies of many years of life show not only the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-49540-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Abortion Law and Policy: An Equal Opportunity Perspective

   By Kerry Petersen

   After at least half a century of political and legal agitation for the liberalization of abortion, most liberal democracies make provision for lawful abortion, but retain criminal penalties for unlawful abortion practices. Legal solutions which have redefined abortion as a health matter represent...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-49474-8 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

9. Health Professionals and the Emergence of Distrust: Maladies of Medical Law

   By Mark Henaghan

   Over the past twenty years there has been a shift in medical law and practise to increasingly distrust the judgement of health professionals. An increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committee and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professional and health...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-49582-0 | Paperback (Routledge-Cavendish)

10. The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment

    By Jane Duckett

    Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe...

    October 2010 | 978-0-415-57389-4 | Hardback (Routledge)