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This book highlights the association between psychosocial elements and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It assumes significance in contemporary times because of the progressive rise in non-communicable diseases, particularly, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes across the globe. The WHO Sustainable Developmental Goal 3.4 target of reducing non-communicable diseases (one-third) by 2030, can be achieved better when psychosocial interventions supplement medical interventions.

The book utilizes extensive data to discuss the synergic relationship between NCDs and disease cognition, affect state and health behaviour. It argues that lifestyle changes go a long way in the prevention and control of NCDs. Cost effective public health measures and sustainable lifestyle changes at individual levels add practical value at macro and micro levels. Intervention modules used in controlled group studies constitute evidence-based research for substituting the current biomedical approaches with a biopsychosocial perspective. It also provides psychosocial assessment tools for NCDs, thus facilitating a holistic approach to NCDs which optimizes the diagnosis, treatment outcomes and effective public health measures for the prevention of NCDs.

This book will be useful to students of Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Public Health and Medical fields. It will also be useful to researchers and practitioners of Health Psychology, Social and Community Medicine, Public Health and Public Policy.

How urgency-driven public health communication perpetuates inequities

Global public health systems necessarily approach emergent threats with great urgency. As Julie Gerdes argues in Infectious Urgency: Communication and Power in the Making of Global Health Emergencies, that urgency itself functions as a rhetorical logic. And this logic shapes prevention tactics, outbreak communication, and response efforts, often in ways that reify power and exacerbate global disparities.

Gerdes scrutinizes how power, authority, and equity move through the prevention, declaration, communication design, and responsephases of public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs) designated by the World Health Organization, including Ebola, Zika, and covid-19. She draws on rhetorical theory and her firsthand experience in global health to provide a nuanced analysis of scientific publications, emergency declaration deliberations, interviews with public health practitioners, and an oral history project on vaccine campaigns.

This handbook studies social welfare in the global south. It looks at social problems from a political, economic, and geographical lens across the global south and analyses the states' responses to these problems through various welfare policies and programs. The book goes beyond mere understanding of social welfare and explores the factors influencing welfare provisions, and the formulation and delivery of welfare policies. It also discusses programs for the welfare of diverse communities in the countries located in the global south.

The volume will be an effective instrument in informing policy decisions related to social welfare. It will be essential for educators, researchers, and practitioners within social work institutions and professionals in social work, social welfare, social policy, and social security studies.

Social Work Practice and Social Interventions in Mental Health Settings is essential reading for any social work students interested in working with people who have a mental illness.

Offering a constructive exploration of social work practice across a range of settings, including community mental health teams, primary care services and social work with children and families, this book examines the social worker's professional identity and the use of social interventions to improve outcomes for service users. Chapters cover key policy and legislation areas, offering insights into working across different practice setting and using specific social interventions. Providing students with an easy-to-read overview of the key themes for social work practice with people who have a mental illness, each chapter also offers learning exercises and illustrative case studies to support student engagement and understanding.

Using a strengths-based approach to working with people who have mental health problems in a way that promotes social justice and challenges discrimination, this book will be essential reading for anyone who is training to be a social worker at UG and PG level, including BA/BSC Social Work, PGDip/MA Social Work, Social Work Degree Apprenticeships, Step Up to Social Work, Frontline and Think Ahead.

A social history of retirement in the United States, this book tells the fascinating story of retirement from the mid-20th century right up to today through a social and cultural lens -revealing key insights into the status of older people in American society at different points in the country's history.

The Rise and Fall of Retirement in the United States details how retirement has been heavily promoted to Americans as a much-deserved reward for decades of hard work since it became an institution in the United States in the late 19th century as a means to replace older workers with younger and cheaper ones. Retirement was popularly portrayed as a kind of paradise - an idyllic experience in which one was liberated from having to support oneself and one's family through work. Made possible by pensions and social security, one's "golden years" could and should be a happy stage of life filled with rest, relaxation, and leisure, Americans were told, but cracks in this narrative began to appear in the 1950s when a steady stream of research and anecdotal evidence showed there to be powerful social and psychological benefits of work. Over the following decades, not just social but economic and political forces worked against retirement, significantly reducing its cultural currency.

Lawrence R. Samuel reveals the wide gap between how retirement was sold to Americans and how it was experienced, and is an important resource for students and instructors in sociology, political sociology, social policy, aging studies, American cultural and political studies, and modern history, as well as for policy makers and analysts.

The fourth edition of Social Work: Fields of Practice outlines social work practice with various groups and across a range of key practice contexts.

Focussing on structures, policies and practice fields that draw on the Australian experience and milieu, this book examines social work practice alongside cultural diversity, Indigenous Australians, mental health, and child and family dynamics. The textbook presents 31 essential chapters, divided into four sections: Theories and Methods, Social Work with Particular Groups and Communities of Interest, Practice Settings, and Emerging Trends and Issues.

This volume addresses all fields covered by the Australian Practice Standards, required for social work accreditation. It will also be of interest to social work students and practitioners based in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Studying the change in the government's perception of, and responses to, fraud and abuse of the social security system, this book analyses how fraud appeared as a big political issue and the attitude that preceded this, dating this change to the 1970s.

Based on research in government papers, the volume analyses and shows how and why early attempts to place a data-based, preventative dome over the system were rejected, by the Thatcher government, in favour of a heightened use of traditional methods of detecting fraudsters. The book then discusses how and why the data-based methods rejected in the 1970s were adopted in the 1990s and how their use has both broadened and deepened in this century.

The British Government and Social Security Fraud and Abuse will be beneficial to post-graduate students of Modern British History, Politics and Sociology.

Youth Work Process, Product and Practice analyses the central concerns in youth work today, detailing the essential elements of youth work practice and providing an authentic theoretical framework.

Placing the role of the curriculum and the idea of practice as a process at the centre of youth work, this accessible textbook explores important aspects of practice such as choice, participation, empowerment, relationships, group work and experiential learning. It also explains how the idea of curriculum can be used to communicate, legitimate and develop youth work practice. The revised third edition has been updated throughout and provides new chapters on the concept of youth for youth work, the theories of informal and social education, and critical pedagogy. It also contains up-to-date analysis of the policy climate, including the development of the National Curriculum in England, a critique of measurability and how this this undermines a process-based approach and the curriculum developments in Finland and Sweden.

This textbook is essential reading for students of youth and community work, as well as practising youth workers, youth work managers, policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the process of youth work.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

As more and more countries realise that their population and often their workforce includes a large group of healthy and active people over 55 years of age, the interest in understanding this group has increased. Investigating examples from across Europe, this edited collection looks at how older workers tackle the new digital world.

While dated stereotypes of older workers as slower, more stubborn and firmly rooted in the past still exist, this collection takes an updated look at the situation in Europe relating to older workers who are using and developing new technologies. Identifying similarities and differences in competence development, cultures and policies, chapters provide a rich opportunity for learning and comparison. The chapters cover skills and lifelong learning, policy, attitudes, barriers and drivers.

With rich insight and breadth, Older Workers and Digital Literacy provides a much-needed update on our understanding of older workers and how they are adapting to digitalization in their workplaces.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.

Surrogacy unsettles established understandings of parenthood, family and reproduction. Many of the debates around surrogacy focus on ideas about what is best for children, yet regulation has largely been shaped without their direct engagement. Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law: Hearing the Views of Children on Surrogacy Law Reform addresses this gap through the first empirical study of its kind in the UK, presenting the perspectives of 54 children aged 8-18.

Drawing on group interviews and creative methods, the study captures the views of surrogate-born children, children of surrogates, and children without experience of surrogacy. It examines their perspectives on legal parenthood, payments, and access to information about origins, showing how existing legal frameworks are experienced and understood by those they most affect.

Authors Katherine Wade, Kirsty Horsey, and Zaina Mahmoud challenge prevailing assumptions and reveal the limits of adult-centred approaches. Set against ongoing law reform efforts, including the UK Law Commissions' 2023 proposals, the book argues that meaningful and sustainable surrogacy law reform requires recognising children as active participants in, rather than passive subjects of, legal frameworks.

An essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the future of family law and child-centred regulation, Children's Voices in Surrogacy Law offers an innovative and replicable methodology for incorporating children's perspectives into legal consultation.

Integrating Family Care Partners in Aged Caregiving in United States addresses the siloed nature of family caregiving in relation to formal paid caregiving, and the imperative that family caregivers or care partners must be integrated in the care of older adults and people living with disabilities. Knowledgeable care partners are crucial to optimal health and social care delivery.

After defining the problems of demographic shifts and financing constraints, this book explores practices and policies that promote care partner integration. This emerging paradigm positions family care partners as integral members of wider long term services and supports (LTSS) in the United States, recognizing them not only as participants but also as authorities in the lived experience of care work. To improve LTSS for older and disabled adults, two key changes are necessary: better recognition of care partners, and integration of their efforts into formal care systems currently falling short of meeting the holistic needs care recipients. Select chapters outline non-US strategies employed around the globe to tackle challenges referred to in that chapter.

This book will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals in social work, health administration, public health, nursing, medicine, public policy, and public administration.

Written by an expert researcher and author, this text focuses on innovation in qualitative research, exploring new areas for qualitative research.

Featuring an extended discussion of how to develop a coherent and robust qualitative research program, this book contains chapters on: *qualitative research synthesis approaches * secondary qualitative data analysis * the diverse landscape of qualitative internet research * advances in grounded theory * qualitatively driven mixed methods * different methods of qualitative content analysis.

This is an essential text for researchers in the health and social sciences, especially those with an interest in qualitative research.

This book offers a view of the elderly person in our contemporary society as a subject in an interpersonal-intersubjective psychoanalytic context.

The contemporary elderly subject can no longer be viewed as an object in need of care and compassion. The experience of aging today requires orientating and treating the elderly as complex biological, social, and psychological subjects. This book is an updated psychoanalytic compass which captures the depth and complexity of the new aging process through the notion of mutual recognition to create an intersubjective experiential understanding. It illuminates various subjective aging experiences through a tapestry of texts, viewpoints, and dialogue with leading aging experts as multi-generational and multi-disciplinary representatives, who observe aging from within and without.

Enriched with copious clinical material, as well as personal perspectives, this is a positive and compassionate guide to aging for all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.

This book emerges at a moment when Europe is confronting two profound and interconnected transformations: the digitalisation of work and the ageing of its workforce. Drawing on comparative insights from 22 European countries and the collaborative work of COST Action CA21107: "Work Inequalities in Later Life Redefined by Digitalisation", the volume brings these developments into dialogue rather than treating them as separate policy or research concerns. It asks how digital change reshapes work inequalities, health, inclusion, and opportunity in later working life. Through an introductory chapter and 22 country chapters, the book offers a rich, context-sensitive account of how older workers experience digital transformation across diverse labour markets, institutions, and social settings. It synthesises existing knowledge on how work inequalities in later life are redefined by digitalisation, examines the impact of digitalised work environments on older workers' health, and identifies best practices for understanding and overcoming digital challenges among older people across Europe. In doing so, the volume highlights both the risks of exclusion, technostress, and widening inequality, and the possibilities opened by inclusive technologies, lifelong learning, age-sensitive workplace design, and supportive public policies. It invites scholars, policymakers, employers, and practitioners to rethink digitalisation not only as a technological transition, but also as a social challenge that must be shaped deliberately to support fair, healthy, and sustainable working lives for all generations.

Examining how Singapore has responded to one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, this book analyses one of the world's fastest-ageing societies. The book provides an evidence-based account of how a small but highly developed state has built and adapted its policies for older adults over seven decades.

Covering key policy areas, the author traces how government approaches have evolved across six distinct historical periods, from a foundational self-reliance model to an increasingly distributed whole-of-society framework. A growing reliance on indirect policy tools such as employer incentives, tax relief, and public-private partnerships is contrasted with economies around the world. Based on a series of interviews across multiple generations, the book presents evidence of policy effectiveness for a national approach to ageing.

Concluding with a new framework for evaluating whether ageing policies genuinely meet older adults' needs, this book provides a valuable reference for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking evidence-informed frameworks for designing and reforming ageing governance systems across diverse national contexts.

A Strategic Guide to AI in Healthcare provides a complete strategic architecture for understanding and implementing artificial intelligence across hospitals, health systems, and governments.

While AI is advancing rapidly, most organisations lack the strategic frameworks, organisational readiness, and implementation know-how to adopt it safely and at scale. The book is therefore structured around the adoption journey. Part I builds awareness and technical literacy, sets out the landscape, and explains why so many AI integrations fail. Part II focuses on hospital-level strategy and implementation, with chapters on building the business case, AI literacy and training, running pilots, scaling to enterprise, workforce transformation, and governance and ethics. Part III extends these themes to government and national strategy, covering regulatory navigation, national data infrastructure and interoperability, and cybersecurity. Each of the 17 chapters combines theory with practitioner case studies (Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, the NHS AI Lab, WannaCry, Synnovis), structured exercises for executive education, and implementation checklists usable directly in board meetings, AI governance councils, and procurement reviews.

A timely and important resource, the book will be essential reading for anyone responsible for the strategic development of hospitals or healthcare systems and for researchers in this field.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.

Building upon six years of insights from the global UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence program, Unifying for Something Greater: How laboratory medicine is driving and enabling healthcare transformation explores how laboratory medicine can transform healthcare delivery into measurably better outcomes for patient, payors, clinicians and entire health systems.

With contributions across six award cycles and 96 documented best practices from five continents, this edited volume examines how clinical laboratories in diverse settings have redefined governance, operations, and organizational models to meet the demands of value-based care. Using real-life examples, the book connects measurable outcomes-improved patient health, enhanced clinician confidence, sustainable cost models-through best practices that span broader trends such as co-creation of care, clinical service lines, and task shifting. From cardiovascular risk detection in primary care to implementation of novel biomarkers, the examples offer actionable lessons for laboratory leaders, hospital executives, and health system managers seeking to navigate the "new normal" of healthcare.

An invaluable addition to the European Health Management in Transition book series, this volume is an essential read for anyone committed to advancing predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine through the transformative power of laboratory services.

Healthcare is being pushed to its limits. Workforce shortages are growing. Clinician burnout is accelerating. Consumers are demanding a radically different experience. And artificial intelligence is no longer a future concept-it is rapidly becoming the foundation of a new kind of healthcare system.

In this bold and timely second edition of AI in Health, internationally recognized AI advisor and former Microsoft health executive Tom Lawry presents a compelling operating guide for leaders navigating the rise of Intelligent Health Systems-organizations that use AI, data, and connected technologies to deliver more proactive, personalized, efficient, and human-centered care.

At its core, this book makes a powerful argument: done right, AI is not about replacing people. It is about empowering them. Empowering clinicians with more time to care. Empowering leaders with better intelligence and decision-making. Empowering patients and consumers with greater access, insight, and control over their health.

Blending powerful storytelling, practical insight, and real-world examples from across healthcare, pharma, and technology, AI in Health shows leaders how to move beyond experimentation and begin building the next generation of healthcare organizations.

Urgent, visionary, and deeply practical, this is essential reading for anyone determined to help shape the future of healthcare.

More time and freer days: that was the promise of the digital era. Instead many of us feel chronically off-balance - rushed, stretched thin, or left with too much of the wrong kind of time. This is not a personal failure, argues sociologist Boroka Bo, but rather a social condition. Time poverty is contagious, networked, shaped by shared rhythms, and transmitted through relationships.

Drawing on immersive fieldwork with new parents and recent retirees in Toronto's wealthiest and poorest neighbourhoods, alongside large-scale time-use data, Bo shows how time is distributed throughout lives and how time imbalances emerge, spread, and become socially patterned across class, race, gender, and immigration status. She eschews productivity hacks, presenting instead an inclusive view that accounts for individuals' discretionary time needs based on life circumstances. The result is the Goldilocks theory of time availability, a powerful lens for understanding how both too little and too much free time shape health and well-being.

Written with clarity and compassion, Timeless advances a new framework for temporal equilibrium and provides practical ways to create temporal sanctuaries: shared spaces in time for rest, recovery, and renewal.

With a focus on communication scholarship about a process that is inherently communicative, this volume offers unique perspectives and important insights drawn from core research in the study of social support.

Divided into seven sections, this book provides a comprehensive overview of key constructs related to supportive communication. Featuring contributions from more than 60 scholars across the world, this volume explores the expansive theory and research regarding experiences of social support and supportive communication and these experiences' social functions and influences on various types of relationships and health. The book also unpacks the complex nature and nuances of supportive communication by outlining key contexts and dilemmas that can make supportive interactions challenging and even result in supportive failures. The historical context, practical applications, and discussions of the future of supportive communication will be useful for readers learning about and conducting their own research into social support.

This handbook will be of interest to various communication studies subdisciplines, including interpersonal, health, family, mediated, and organizational communication, as well as allied disciplines such as psychology, sociology, and public health.

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Domestic Abuse enables readers to follow health and social care practitioner's thinking processes to unpack a range of elements of domestic abuse situations and develop a systematic approach to decision making.

Domestic abuse can be defined as a pattern of behaviour in any relationship, that is used to gain or maintain power and control an intimate partner. Each chapter presents a scenario with an annotated framework for thinking through key ideas, which allows the readers to explore the breadth of complex factors associated with domestic abuse. Readers will learn how to assist victims, ensure their safety, and be vigilant and open to modes of abuse that sit outside the stereotypical occurrences in a safe and ethical manner. Students on health and social care, social work, nursing and counselling courses will explore how to address difficult conversations in their professional environments, challenge their thinking and encourage ethical decision making.

Current practitioners in these fields will benefit from the opportunity to explore professional dilemmas they may have not yet witnessed in their own practice-learning experiences and uncover new theories that will help with future decision making.

This book examines the transformative role of genetics in health, prevention of diseases and climate change. It bridges the gap between genomic research, biotechnology and environmental health, and shows how genetic insight can lead to particular medical advances, permanent health services, and climate change-oriented solutions. With CRISPR, Gene Therapies and Pharmacogenomics, focusing on state-of the-art advances, this book offers a comprehensive and approachable perspective on the future of genetics and global health in environments impacted, even dominated by climate change.

De-Ableizing Religion and Disability gathers new scholarship engaging both critical disability studies frameworks and the field of religious studies. In adopting decolonizing stances, authors engage a variety of global religious contexts to interrogate and identify new avenues at the intersection of disability and religion.

The book explores the themes of survival, resistance, and flourishing as persons with disabilities in relation to religion across a diversity of contexts. Part 1 examines lived experiences including Black disabled Americans' stories, religious trauma frameworks in Canada, the impact of war and colonialism on Buddhist empowerment discourse in Sri Lanka, gender fluid mediums in Vietnamese Mother Goddess religion, and ableism among food pantries. Part 2 seeks to de-ableize readings of scripture including comparative Qur'anic and Christian healing narratives and their implications for professional practice, reading Hebrew and Christian scriptures through the lens of Mad Studies, and debilitating violence in gospel narratives. Part 3 interrogates methods in religious studies by examining the material and corporeal study of religion (MCSR) in relation to special needs ministries, ambiguities of the DSM-V and "religious delusion," disability and faith in the writings of Frederick Douglass's, and a call to more fully integrate disability studies with Black religious studies.

This cutting-edge volume will enrich the understanding of the complex relationship between disability and religion for scholars, researchers, and those seeking justice and flourishing for persons with disabilities.