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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... -
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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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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$27.20
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Health Policy
David Reisman
‘Too often health economics proceeds without serious consideration of the concrete challenges of health policy. David Reisman’s new book does just the opposite: it starts with those challenges and shows what the economics of health care...eBook:Find out more$44.80
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Coroners' Recommendations and the Promise of Saved Lives
Jennifer Moore
‘In this well-constructed empirical study Moore provides insight on the contemporary role of coronial recommendations. This goes to the heart of the efficacy of the coroner’s preventive function. She explores the gap between rhetoric and...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition
Robert J. Brent
Acclaim for the first edition: ‘Professor Brent’s book is a superb and much-needed text in the field of health care evaluation. The economic approaches for appraisal of health care programs are presented with greater clarity than any ot...eBook:Find out more$57.60
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Innovation and Culture in Public Services
Steven DeMello, Peder Inge Furseth
‘The authors have raised an important construct for all of us who work in the public sector regarding what underlies and directs the rapid advancement of technology solutions in developing and developed economies. . . DeMello and Furseth...eBook:Find out more$40.00