Published December, 2017
By Lawrence Haddad, Sonalde Desai, Deepta Chopra and Amit Thorat
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Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world's stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in India and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address it.

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Published December, 2017
By Jessica Hayes-Conroy
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In this challenging book, the author explores the contradictions and shortcomings of alternative food activism to demonstrate the importance of moving beyond a promotion of universal "shoulds" of eating, and towards a practice of food activism that is more sensitive to issues of social and material difference.

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Published December, 2017
By Timothy A. Carey
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This book, written for mental health professionals, presents a fresh new alternative to patient-centred care in the form of patient-perspective care - a highly innovative, evidence-based approach that is a more pragmatic and achievable ethos for effective and efficient health service provision.

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Published December, 2017
By Timothy A. Carey
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This book, written for mental health professionals, presents a fresh new alternative to patient-centred care in the form of patient-perspective care - a highly innovative, evidence-based approach that is a more pragmatic and achievable ethos for effective and efficient health service provision.

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Published November, 2017
By Kaisa Kauppinen
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A comparative European overview focusing upon the main areas of social construction as it relates to health and illness; including an emphasis upon lay beliefs and the different way understandings of health can impact upon health behaviour, examining health knowledge and the interaction and comparison between lay and professional knowledge systems.

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Published November, 2017
By Michael Gossop
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Written in an accessible style and providing a balanced perspective, the book is ideal for non-specialists in training, such as student nurses and social workers and for anyone with an interest in this complex, ever-present and emotive issue.

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Published November, 2017
By Ofra Anson and Shifang Sun
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This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, health behaviour and health care and the processes by which these came about.

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Published November, 2017
By Nana K. Poku, Robert L. Ostergard, Geir Honneland and Lars Rowe
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The emergence of new and re-emergence of old infectious diseases since the early 1990s has attracted interest from various fields of investigation. This timely work provides a detailed account of how the states around the Baltic Sea have met the challenge of communicable diseases and used health issues as an instrument in their foreign policy.

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Published November, 2017
By Margaret Voysey Paun
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Published in 1975, A Constant Burden was truly ground-breaking in the field of medical sociology as a study of families with a disabled child; based on an analysis of interviews with parents on the effects of their child's disability on their family life. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work.

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Published November, 2017
By William J. Rea and Kalpana D. Patel
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Reversibility of Chronic Disease and Hypersensitivity, Volume 4: The Environmental Aspects of Chemical Sensitivity is the fourth of an encyclopedic five-volume set describing the basic physiology, chemical sensitivity, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic degenerative disease studied in a 5x less polluted controlled environment.

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