Preventing Child Abuse introduces the evidence, theories, concepts, essential components, and practice issues for family-based prevention programs (FBPs) for families dealing with substance use problems.
Drawing on empirical research that examines how processes of victim identification unfold in relation to cases of child criminal exploitation in the UK, the book explores four different qualities of the concept 'victim'.
This timely volume addresses the interpersonal, institutional, and structural factors underpinning inequities in healthcare access, experiences, and outcomes among racialised communities living in the United Kingdom (UK) today.
Addiction is the United States' most pervasive and damaging public health problem, yet most Americans receive care that results in a failure rate that is both astronomically high and shielded from public view.
The third edition of The American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook of Addiction Medicine provides authoritative, evidence-based guidance on evaluating, treating, and managing patients with substance use disorders.
The third edition of The American Society of Addiction Medicine Handbook of Addiction Medicine provides authoritative, evidence-based guidance on evaluating, treating, and managing patients with substance use disorders.
This book critically examines the foundational assumptions of vaccine systems, challenging the dominant linear narrative of vaccine creation and production, regulation, and distribution.
This book critically examines the foundational assumptions of vaccine systems, challenging the dominant linear narrative of vaccine creation and production, regulation, and distribution.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to systems thinking in public health, offering readers a robust framework for understanding and addressing complex health issues.
Recent years have made apparent we are living in a world of chronic crises: prolonged disasters that continue to impact people's lives long after their onset.
An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how we go about finding them and estimating their effects.
This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma can cause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on the autism spectrum.
This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.
Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context?
A growing body of knowledge has revealed the profound impact of the social determinants of health-the social, political, and economic factors apart from health care that influence health.
A growing body of knowledge has revealed the profound impact of the social determinants of health-the social, political, and economic factors apart from health care that influence health.
This book explores how creativity and the expressive arts can be therapeutic for refugees and survivors of natural disasters, poverty, war, pandemic and genocide.
This book presents ground-breaking ideas based on current research on how stigma can cause bodily felt trauma in stigmatised or marginalised people, particularly those on the autism spectrum.
Drawing on empirical research that examines how processes of victim identification unfold in relation to cases of child criminal exploitation in the UK, the book explores four different qualities of the concept 'victim'.
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimers disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of other dementias.
Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context?
For years, technologists and computer scientists have promised an AI revolution that would transform the very basis of how we imagine and administer modern medicine.
For years, technologists and computer scientists have promised an AI revolution that would transform the very basis of how we imagine and administer modern medicine.
Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimers disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of other dementias.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to systems thinking in public health, offering readers a robust framework for understanding and addressing complex health issues.
This book contributes to the exploration of the concept of time in the social sciences and philosophy, by reflecting on the ontological presuppositions of medical science and what this means for the response to communicable infection.
This book contributes to the exploration of the concept of time in the social sciences and philosophy, by reflecting on the ontological presuppositions of medical science and what this means for the response to communicable infection.
The fourth edition of Social Injustice and Public Health, a completely updated edition of the classic text, is a comprehensive, evidence-based resource for understanding and addressing the profound impacts of social injustice on public health.
How can we teach health professionals, who are among the most privileged in American society, to best serve those who are the least privileged in American society?
Addictions Counseling: A Competency-Based Approach is a comprehensive and essential resource for academics and organizations preparing students for certification and professional practice in the field of addiction treatment.
How can we teach health professionals, who are among the most privileged in American society, to best serve those who are the least privileged in American society?
