Published July, 2020
By Mike Saks, Raisa Deber, Nelson Barros, Joana Almeida, Miwako Hosoda, Whitney Berta, Adrian Rohit Dass, Audrey Laporte, Mirko Noordegraaf, Elisabeth Olin and Anna Duner
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This original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers (HSWs) and examines their interface with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a world becoming increasingly dependent on HSWs.

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Published July, 2020
By Tim Spencer-Lane, Kevin Stone, Robert Lomax, Gill Ince and SARAH VICARY
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Approved Mental Health Professionals must possess and deploy a range of skills, knowledge and values in order to make ethically complex decisions on behalf of people with severe mental health difficulties. This invaluable handbook considers these challenges and provides in-depth guidance on all key aspects of the role.

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Published July, 2020
By Ben Vincent
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Offering important nuances and crucial insights into diverse gender identities and trans-related healthcare inequalities, this ground-breaking research marks an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.

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Published July, 2020
By Ben Vincent
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Offering important nuances and crucial insights into diverse gender identities and trans-related healthcare inequalities, this ground-breaking research marks an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.

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Published May, 2020
By Anthea Innes, Fiona Marshall, Kieran Walsh, Mark Rapoport, Debra Morgan, Jane Farmer, Nancy McAdam, Jessica Chiovitte, Kristen Jacklin, Gary Naglie, Andy Hyde, Ben Hicks and Eamon O'Shea
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This is the first comprehensive review of dementia research, policy and practice in remote and rural settings. Drawing on case studies from the UK, Australia, Europe and North America, it sets out the unique needs of sufferers and carers in isolated locations, and identifies areas for future research and improvements in dementia services.

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Published April, 2020
By Ian Cummins
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This inter-disciplinary study considers the past, present and future of mental health services and community care. From the origins of provision as we know it in the 1960s, it sets out the political, economic and bureaucratic factors behind recent crises and considers what the founding principles of community care tell us about the way forward.

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Published March, 2020
By Stephen Peckham, Stephen Harrison, Valerie Moran, Neil Perkins, Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Erica Gadsby, Ben Ritchie, Lorraine Williams, Christina Petsoulas, Elizabeth Watson, Dorota Osipovic, Oz Gore and Donna Bramwell
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This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.

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Published March, 2020
By Stephen Peckham, Stephen Harrison, Valerie Moran, Neil Perkins, Pauline Allen, Kath Checkland, Erica Gadsby, Ben Ritchie, Lorraine Williams, Christina Petsoulas, Elizabeth Watson, Dorota Osipovic, Oz Gore and Donna Bramwell
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This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.

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Published September, 2019
By Richard M. Titmuss
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In this reissued classic, Richard Titmuss compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is safer and more economically efficient.

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Published July, 2019
By Diane Levin-Zamir, Orkan Okan, Ullrich Bauer, Paulo Pinheiro and Kristine Sorensen
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This comprehensive handbook provides an invaluable overview of current international thinking about health literacy, highlighting cutting edge research, policy and practice in the field. Providing a wide range of major findings, the book outlines current discourse in the field and examines necessary future dialogues and new perspectives.

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