Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions - Softcover

Peckham, Stephen

 
9780335219629: Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0335219624 ISBN 13: 9780335219629
Verlag: Open University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

  • What is social policy and why is it relevant to nursing and other caring professions?
  • How has the welfare state changed in response to new social problems?
  • What roles do professionals and lay people play in providing welfare services?
This fully revised text is one of a series of books providing coherent and multi-disciplinary support for all client groups involved in the provision of health and social care. The book examines the relationship between welfare and health and includes discussion of key policy issues such as; changes in health care delivery, regulation of professionals, privatisation, welfare pluralism and the tackling of health and social inequalities. The significance of social policy in preventing ill health and disability, as well as supporting the sick and disabled people, is emphasised throughout the book.

This new edition is updated throughout and includes new chapters on:

  • Health policy in the post-war period
  • The role of health and social care professionals
  • The future of social policy and health in the 21st century
Social Policy for Nurses and the Helping Professions equips students with a lively, readable and well-illustrated introduction to social policy. The reader is guided through the material with the help of chapter summaries, further reading and a glossary, as well as new examples and case studies to reflect the different client groups within nursing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stephen Peckham is Reader in Health Policy and Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at Oxford Brookes University. He has published widely on primary care and health policy including Managing Public Involvement published by the Open University Press in 1998 and more recently Primary Care in the UK: Policy, Organisation and Management published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2003.

Professor Liz Meerabeau is Head of the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Greenwich. Her academic interests include the sociology of knowledge, particularly professional knowledge; sociology of the emotions, and community nursing. She co-edited with Pam Abbott the second edition of The Sociology of the Caring Professions (UCL Press, 1998) and has recently published several papers on the move of nursing education into higher education.

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Verlag
Open University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0335219624
ISBN 13 
9780335219629
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
338
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