Product Description: This unique book take a completely fresh approach to child health. The authors address the challenges of child health as embodied in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the positive health targets of WHO's Health for All 2000 initiative...read more

Product Description: The second volume in a series reviewing important developments of interest to paediatricians working in the community. Topics covered include social paediatrics, health promotion, disability, service management, child protection, public health, adoption and fostering, audiology and visual impairment, pre-school surveillance, school health/educational medicine, special education needs, epidemiology, the interface between community and general paediatrics in infectious diseases, genetics, neurology, and psychiatry...read more

The relationship between poverty and child health has always been assumed but this book demonstrates how the evidence of history and of other societies establishes a causal link. The practical implications in health and social policy are presented in the context of child care services, together with some innovative approaches to future development. This is a book for professionals in medicine, nursing and the social services who are involved in research and the practical issues of delivering a modern health care service to disadvantaged children.

Product Description: Rationalization is concerned with making the most effective use of the resources available. In many places where this process is taking place it is plagued with public opposition and misunderstanding. Hitherto rationalization in the acute care sector has primarily been concerned with closing sites closing beds moving beds between services and moving beds from one site to another...read more

Product Description: Hardly a day goes by when the explosive issues of asylum and immigration are not in the news. Public opinion is frequently confused and ignorant and the issues are often presented in an overly polemical and polarized way. With some of society's most vulnerable alienated and demonized, how should we react? How should we think through these issues in ways that are true to the faith and informed of the facts? Bringing together a credible and realistic Christian perspective, Asylum and Immigration explores principles, policies and practical, considerations and helps us understand, engage in and make a difference to this major social issue which will only grow in importance in our rapidly globalizing world...read more

Product Description: Despite years of soaking up sermons and Bible lessons, the average Christian feels ill-equipped to answer objections posed by family, friends, and colleagues. Why do some Christians find themselves unable to respond to such objections as: - "You don't need to go to church to be spiritual...read more

Product Description: This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges.The book presents an overview of progress since the publication of the seminal and ambitious 1998 Acheson Inquiry into health inequalities, and the theoretical and methodological issues underpinning health inequalities...read more

Product Description: The breakout hit of last summer, finally collected in one volume! In Existence 2.0, self-absorbed physicist Sylvester Baladine finds his consciousness transferred into the body of the hit man who just killed him. Then, in Existence 3...read more

Product Description: The dead are killing! While struggling to hide the secrets of his own tortured past, troubled homicide detective Isaac Hernandez investigates a string of murders in which all of the forensic evidence points toward perpetrators who are already dead themselves...read more

Product Description: 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James' Bible and will see a great deal of celebration and comment about the impact of the Bible on British culture. Much of the story is well-known, such as the Bible's seminal influence on British language and literature, but one aspect—the influence of the Bible on English politics—is largely unknown or ignored...read more

Product Description: Forgetless is the biggest party in New York, but now it's ending. On the final guest list: Sara and Sonia, struggling models turned professional killers; Derrick, a failed T-shirt maker and hypnotist's assistant turned You-Tube porn impresario; and a sex-addicted koala (don't ask)...read more