Product Description: This revised edition of Helen Roberts’ classic study of child health inequalities features new case studies, updated research references, and a new section on cost effectiveness—an important tool in an era of government spending cutbacks...read more

Such diverse thinkers as Lao-Tze, Confucius, and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all pointed out that we need to be able to tell the difference between real and assumed knowledge. The systematic review is a scientific tool that can help with this difficult task. It can help, for example, with appraising, summarising, and communicating the results and implications of otherwise unmanageable quantities of data. This book, written by two highly-respected social scientists, provides an overview of systematic literature review methods:Outlining the rationale and methods of systematic reviews; Giving worked examples from social science and other fields; Applying the practice to all social science disciplines; It requires no previous knowledge, but takes the reader through the process stage by stage; Drawing on examples from such diverse fields as psychology, criminology, education, transport, social welfare, public health, and housing and urban policy, among others. Including detailed sections on assessing the quality of both quantitative, and qualitative research; searching for evidence in the social sciences; meta-analytic and other methods of evidence synthesis; publication bias; heterogeneity; and approaches to dissemination.

Product Description: With contributions from leading experts in the child welfare field, this book provides an overview of the best current evidence from research on 'what works' in social care services for children and families. The research reviews are helpfully laid out in sections covering services for children who are looked after away from home; interventions aimed at reducing the social exclusion of children and young people; and interventions aimed at protecting children or promoting their health...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: More years of productive life are lost to accidents than to heart disease and cancer combined. More children and young people die from accidental injury than any other cause. Little attention has been paid to the problem of child accidents or to the challenge of accident prevention...read more

Product Description: The authors of this volume, all experienced teachers and administrators, outline how to teach in a multicultural environment. They suggest classroom strategies, curriculum reforms and assessment tools that work for all students.

Product Description: One of the finest books ever written on the progression of the soul through lessons of cause and effect. Reading excerpts from the Loehr-Daniels Life Readings show karma working in lifetime after lifetime, not as punishment, but as a cosmic force to bring learning opportunities by experiencing the results of one's deeds...read more

Product Description: Recently there has been an upsurge of interest in research on women's health. "Women's Health Matters", like its sister volume "Women's Health Counts", is a practical guide to doing feminist research on women's health. For people starting to do research, the completed monograph and the methodology textbook can give only a partial understanding of what it is like to do research and what the problems and pleasures really are...read more

Product Description: Book by Monahan, Maggie

Examines the relationship between women and their doctors, perceptions of illness, family health care, women's traditional role as caregivers, and possible improvements in health care

Product Description: First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.