Smoking presents important controversial research that is based on a survey of several thousand young persons and adults, probing: * attitudes * beliefs * feelings * perceptions of risk associated with smoking The expert board of contributors point out that young smokers give little or not thought to health risks or the problems of addiction. The ......
New Managerialism, New Welfare is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing restructuring of the state and social welfare in the United Kingdom. It combines studies of specific policy areas - such as health, education, criminal justice, local government - with chapters that examine cross-cutting themes and developments. The book ......
New Managerialism, New Welfare is a carefully integrated textbook that explores the continuing restructuring of the state and social welfare in the United Kingdom. It combines studies of specific policy areas - such as health, education, criminal justice, local government - with chapters that examine cross-cutting themes and developments. The book ......
`This is an ambitious contribution to the ever-growing market for research textbooks. The book concludes with an excellent appendix on sources of literature... useful for postgraduate students and staff wishing to fill gaps and/or double-check their facts' - Physiotherapy `In lieu of serving up the usual fare of methods and applications to be ......
This wide-ranging text on research methods in health and social care introduces readers to different kinds of evidence and helps them to evaluate the unique contributions of each. It acknowledges the variety of contexts in which practitioners work and the challenges of putting research into practice. The book introduces readers to research of ......
This wide-ranging text on research methods in health and social care introduces readers to different kinds of evidence and helps them to evaluate the unique contributions of each. It acknowledges the variety of contexts in which practitioners work and the challenges of putting research into practice. The book introduces readers to research of ......
A critique of American social welfare policy. Sanford F. Schram explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively deteriorating American work ethic and the class, race, sexual and gender biases at the root of current policy and debates.
Explores the cultural anxieties over the putatively deteriorating 'American work ethic', and the class, race, sexual and gender biases at the root of the policy and debates. This title argues that activists could make great strides towards achieving social justice, even in the reactionary climate.
Through an analysis of a number of case studies from the United States, the author explores the ways grassroots strategies can be used in the revitalisation and maintenance of urban neighbourhoods.'
