Getting Healthy in Toxic Times is the first book to connect the health of our planet with our own well-being, and asks the question that very few doctors do, how can we protect ourselves from the pollution, chemicals and toxins that pervade our environment? We're all too aware of the traffic pollution in the air, the chemicals in our water, the toxins in the soil (and therefore our food) and the electromagnetic energy emanating from our gadgets. But if we can also understand how they affect our health, not least in the worrying rises in asthma and allergies, infertility, obesity, heart disease, behavioural and neurological disorders as well as cancer, then we can take positive steps to avoid them

Published June 2025

Health Equity: African Americans and Public Health offers a unique perspective into the complex dimensions of health inequities as these pertain to African Americans. This book aims to help advance health equity by providing a critical examination of the factors that create, perpetuate, and exacerbate health inequities for African Americans. These findings may serve as catalysts for transforming health outcomes in the United States.

Published June 2025

The book is a comprehensive edited book that addresses the multifaceted dimensions of global health, the critical intersections of education, clinical practice, and research. With a focus on policies, initiatives, and innovation, this book explores foundational principles, educational strategies, transformative technologies, and cutting-edge research projects that contribute to the evolution of global health practices.

Published June 2025

Learn the latest healthcare and human service research methods! Introduction to Research: Understanding and Applying Multiple Strategies, Seventh Edition, helps bridge the gap between research and practice by giving you a solid foundation for critiquing your own work. This easy-to-read guide covers all the major research design strategies: qualitative, quantitative, naturalistic, experimental-type, and mixed method.

Published June 2025

A core competency for health and community service practitioners internationally, project management is a key challenge for both new and existing staff. This practitioner’s guide uses project stories and examples to illustrate the core challenges that practitioners may face, including managing the project life cycle, project planning, execution and evaluation, risk management, handling change and building effective teams.

Published June 2025

An antiracist theory of cleaning.In Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism, Françoise Vergès examines the racial and gendered politics of wasting lands, bodies, and resources and the organized deprivation of clean water, shelter, and access to health services—in other words, the structural denial, along racial lines, of vital needs.

Published June 2025

This book provides an in-depth examination of health and health care inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities.

Published June 2025

What is health? What does health mean to people? How do we make sense of health and experience it? here are no simple answers to these questions. Health is complex, subjective and varied. Drawing on theory, research and contemporary debates, Ruth Cross explores the nature of health in depth and challenges our thinking about it.

Published June 2025

The most comprehensive major academic textbook available on its topic, this classic text presents the most important research studies in the field. The author integrates engaging first-person accounts from patients, physicians, and other health care providers throughout the text

Published June 2025

The persistence of stark health inequalities in today's world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can we advance our understanding of the full extent of health inequality, what drives it, and ways to address it? The third edition of this popular book closely examines the influence of social class, gender, and race/ethnicity (among other issues) on health in the light of broad macro-political contexts.

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