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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (52 entries) : 10 images ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
SAGE key concepts |
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SAGE key concepts.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Notes on the Text -- Notes on the Authors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Defining Health -- The biomedical model of health -- The social model of health -- The social and medical models of disability -- Alternative or complementary medicine -- Quality of life measures -- Functionality -- Part 2 The Human Life Course -- The life course -- Childbirth -- Childhood -- Family and individual well-being -- Social dependency in older age -- The third age -- The social organization of death and dying -- Part 3 Health Protection -- Social inequalities in health -- Social capital -- Risk society -- Public health -- Health promotion -- Work and health -- Global health -- Part 4 Health Beliefs and Health Behaviour -- Models of health behaviour -- Healthy lifestyle and consumption patterns -- Lay knowledge and illness attribution -- Personality and health -- Embodiment -- Stress and coping -- Motivational interviewing in health care -- Part 5 The Lived Experience of Health and Illness -- Stigma and labelling theory -- Medicalization -- Biographical disruption -- Professional / client communication -- Pain -- Illness narratives -- Adherence -- Part 6 Health Care Provision -- Health care systems -- Long-term health and social care needs -- Informal care -- The role of health professionals -- Health care governance -- Institutionalization -- Health care consumerism and patient choice. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Key Concepts in Health Studies provides a much needed guide to the central concepts used across the subject, and offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the core topics, theories and debates. Drawing together the fundamentals within the disciplines of health, nursing, and social policy this book is an ideal text both for students studying health in a range of academic fields, and for health and social care practitioners. |
| Form |
Also available in print. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Social medicine.
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Health.
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Social Medicine. |
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Health. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Crinson, Iain, author.
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Duncan, Eilidh, author.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Spine Title |
Health studies. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 1848606737 9781848606739 (DLC) 2009937455 viii, 178 pages |
| ISBN |
9781848606739 print |
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1848606737 print |
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9781848606746 paperback |
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1848606745 paperback |
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9781784028558 electronic version |
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