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This accessible book uses case studies to explore issues around intimacy, sexual function and sexual development over the lifespan, introducing applied principles and practices when working with sexuality-related issues.

Learn the basics of the five core areas of community and public health Introduction to Community and Public Health covers the basics in each area of community and public health as identified by the Association of Schools of Public Health.

Integrated care incorporates behavioral and physical health services into primary care and specialty medical environments.

This textbook - now thoroughly revised and updated - provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing.

Physical Activity and Health explains clearly, systematically and in detail the relationship between physical activity, health and disease, and examines the role of exercise in the prevention and management of a wide range of important conditions.

How can research on the social determinants of health be translated into real life public health practice?

"e;An extremely popular and valuable resource to students, practitioners and managers in community health care nursing"e; - Journal of Advanced Nursing The fifth edition of Community and Public Health Nursing is an essential source of information for all those working in primary and community healthcare.

Health promotion is an increasingly central tenet in health professionals' lives.

In America's increasingly diverse society, it is imperative that mental health providers prioritize the development of their cultural competence to assure that they are equipped to meet the needs of their clients.

Social exclusion attempts to make sense out of multiple deprivations and inequities experienced by people and areas, and the reinforcing effects of reduced participation, consumption, mobility, access, integration, influence and recognition.

With today's large aging population, a growing number of people face the burden of placing their spouses or elder relatives in long term care.

This book examines the policies, challenges, and quality of life issues in palliative care and nursing home care facilities.

This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal care and outlines how it should be implemented, with international examples.

Listening Visits in Perinatal Mental Health focuses on how women and families suffering from perinatal mental illness can be supported by a wide range of practitioners.

"e;[This book] continues to be the first line resource toward understanding rural health nursing and the interface with cultural, health, health beliefs, and health care in rural populations.

Group homes are the dominant form of residential accommodation for people with severe learning or intellectual disabilities, and yet there are significant problems within these living environments.

If you are facing the unique challenges of caring for a parent with dementia, you are not alone.

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and those in remote Indigenous communities.

Last published in 2004, this new second edition contains up-to-date information for practitioners committed to providing a continuum of services to individuals with ID/D across the lifespan.

This book clearly defines family-centred perinatal care and outlines how it should be implemented, with international examples.

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

An Introduction to Community and Primary Health Care introduces students to the theory, skills and professional roles in community settings.

This textbook provides practical guidance to enable health professionals to support survivors of sexual violence.

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Globally, young people's health is an increasing priority area for health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers, and concepts of empowerment feature strongly in international public health discourses on young people's health.

This popular book encompasses contemporary theory and practice relevant to effective health visiting across all four nations of the United Kingdom, now and into the future.

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity.

Capacity building - which focuses on understanding the obstacles that prevent organisations from realising their goals, while promoting those features that help them to achieve measurable and sustainable results - is vital to improve the delivery of health care in both developed and developing countries.

The Individual Service Funds Handbook is the definitive guide to one of the most innovative forms of personal budget in health and social care.

Principles and Practice of Health Promotion and Public Health brings together the disciplines and fields of study that inform the work of promoting health into one book and provides many examples of practice.

Rural Nursing will equip nursing students with the confidence to provide high-quality health care in a range of practice settings.

"e;With a technique that is easy for anybody to learn and with the potential to achieve amazing outcomes, this is one of the most powerful books ever written to help people living with dementia to do so with dignity, respect, and independence.

A comprehensive textbook providing a complete overview of the multifaceted nature of public health practice.

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The effective delivery of primary care requires the good working of a multi-professional team who provide that care.

Faith community nursing is a nursing practice specialty that focuses on the intentional care of the spirit, the promotion of an integrative model of health, and the prevention and minimization of illness within the context of a faith community.

This book provides up-to-date, practical information for family doctors on how to assess and manage important mental health problems presenting in primary care settings.

Compassion in healthcare is simultaneously a professional practice and a personal response to the suffering of strangers that is shaped by life experience and a shared evolutionary past.

Public Health Nursing is an essential resource for all health visiting students, school nursing students, and occupational health nursing students, that reflects the current key changes in community public health nursing.

Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the constantly evolving global health landscape.

Postpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness.

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'The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating.

This new edition of From Birth to Sixteen outlines children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from infancy through to adolescence.

'The growth of public health courses aimed at undergraduates has created a new need for textbooks that are appropriate and stimulating.

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing.

A nurse's field guide to improving health outcomes for distinct patient populationsThis practical text is distinguished by its in-depth coverage of populations, ranging from opioidaddicted veterans to young children suffering from obesity.

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business internationally, in particular with regards to a range of women's health issues.