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Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours

WEBHealth-related behaviours are a concern for contemporary health policy and practice given their association with a range of illness outcomes. Many of the policies and interventions …

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Understanding Health and Illness

WEBHealth and illness are interesting issues to study because they can mean different things to different people, at different times and in different places. This complexity has …

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A Reader in Promoting Public Health: Challenge and Controversy …

WEBThe second edition of A Reader in Promoting Public Health brings together a selection of readings that explore and challenge current thinking in the field of multidisciplinary public …

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Public Health: Building Innovative Practice

WEBPublic Health: Building Innovative Practice examines the main challenges facing public health today and fosters an informed and creative response by practitioners. It explores …

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The Social context of health and health work

WEBThe Social Context of Health and Health Work breaks new ground by linking together sociology of health and social policy perspectives. Linda Jones argues that health and …

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Making decisions in mental healthcare

WEBPeople who are involved within the decision-making processes of mental healthcare understand and respond to distress in differing ways with important consequences for …

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The Open University

WEBIn 2018 the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), in association with the Young Health Movement, published #StatusofMind: Social media and young people’s mental …

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Key Questions in Healthcare Law and Ethics

WEBThe perfect textbook for nursing and healthcare students who want a fresh, innovative way to understand how law and ethics relate to their studies, placements, and professional …

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An exploration of the 6Cs as a set of values for nursing practice

WEBIn 2012, after several high profile cases of poor quality care in England and concerns about a lack of compassion and a need to refocus on values, the Department of Health (DH) in …

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The Open University

WEBWhat kinds of changes occur across the lifespan? What role do our experiences, social and historical contexts and relationships with others play in shaping those changes? This …

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Theory and Research in Promoting Public Health

WEBTheory and Research in Promoting Public Health is an important text that addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary …

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The Open University

WEBAnimist health can require the intervention of shamans, medicine people and others who seek understanding of relational causes and relational remedies. The value of these …

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Consumer Healthcare: Current Trends

WEBThe working definition of self-care is the ability of individuals, families and communities to promote health, prevent disease, and maintain health and to cope with

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Introduction to positivist, interpretivism & critical theory

WEB2 Introduction to positivism, interpretivism & critical theory Introduction A research philosophy is what the researcher perceives to be truth, reality and knowledge.

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Legal Principles of Responsibility and Accountability in …

WEBWithin healthcare a number ofconcepts are raised whenever professionalism is being discussed or considered; these are the concepts of responsibility and

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The Open University

WEBThis paper analyses the private healthcare sector’s role in Zimbabwe’s health delivery system, especially after economic challenges reduced in real terms fiscal support for …

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Ethical and legal considerations of community nursing

WEBAbout the book: Community Nursing and Health Care brings together the key issues arising from the relationships between community healthcare nurses, their clients, and other …

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