Health Policy and Economics
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Ending Childhood Obesity
Edited by Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis, Olivier De Schutter
‘Ending Childhood Obesity is an authoritative source that advances the case for a greater role of law in tackling the root causes of obesity as a public health emergency within the current global food environment. It is a must read for a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Research Agenda for Migration and Health
Edited by K. Bruce Newbold, Kathi Wilson
‘Bruce Newbold and Kathi Wilson are both health geographers with a strong legacy; this edited volume on which they have partnered is no exception. As they state in their opening chapter, the health of an immigrant is shaped by the immig...eBook:Find out more$28.00
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A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing
Neil Thin
‘Now more than ever it is vitally important for us to understand that wellbeing is not a solo job. Neil Thin has written an original, masterful book on the good life as a social endeavor. Lively and full of insight and optimism, it will ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Edited by Marie E. Gispen, Brigit Toebes
‘Marie Elske Gispen and Brigit Toebes have written a book of worldwide importance and impact. Tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death globally. Big Tobacco poses a major threat to the right to health. Using a human rights...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research
Edited by Catherine Walshe, Sarah Brearley
This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Regulation of E-cigarettes
Edited by Lukasz Gruszczynski
'E-cigarettes have radically complicated the landscape of public health aims, agendas, and strategies, especially given the context of the tobacco endgame. They bring multiple layers of scientific, as well as political and regulatory, co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Responsible Innovation in Digital Health
Edited by Tatiana Iakovleva, Elin M. Oftedal, John Bessant
‘People ageing and the welfare society demand the intensive use of technology to provide a modern and sustainable care service. But the use of technology also raises new ethical questions about the way the knowledge is obtained and patie...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing
Edited by Wolf Sauter, Jos Boertjens, Johan van Manen, Misja Mikkers
Examining the ways and extent to which systemic factors affect health outcomes with regard to quality, affordability and access to curative healthcare, this explorative book compares tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bisma...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ageing, Ageism and the Law
Edited by Israel Doron, Nena Georgantzi
‘The book is fresh, novel and encouraging in its pursuit of flexible solutions. It utilizes unique perspectives to alter the traditional understanding of legal approaches to tackling ageism and to provide a scaffold for the development o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Elgar Companion to Social Capital and Health
Edited by Sherman Folland, Eric Nauenberg
‘Did you know that the concept of “social capital” can be traced to Marx? This Companion contains many more startling insights, not least due to its comprehensive review of worldwide empirical evidence suggesting that indeed social capit...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Migration, Health and Survival
Edited by Frank Trovato
‘This work provides a rigorous review of factors predicting the health and mortality of immigrants both in the short and long term: healthy migrant selection effects are contrasted with the negative acculturation, blockages in labor mark...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sick of Inequality?
Andreas Bergh, Therese Nilsson, Daniel Waldenström
‘With this book Bergh, Nilsson and Waldenström bring a nuanced contribution to a research field torn by controversies and heated polemics. In a clear and pedagogical manner the authors sift through the research and weigh the evidence. It...eBook:Find out more$25.56