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Book SynopsisThis item replaces L139 from 1st October 2014. L151 Security provisions should be read alongside L150 Safety provision.

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Book SynopsisWill help organisations to comply with data protection legislation. Previously published by the department for Work and Pensions (DWP), it has been revised as most existing accident books allow personal details to be seen by anyone reading or making an entry in the book. The Data Protection Act 1998 requires that personal details in accident books must be kept confidential. Individual record sheets can be removed and stored securely. Contains 96 copies of the record sheet, instructions on how to use the book, and guidance on the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 and the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1991. (HSE Website). Both 2012 and 2018 versions are valid to use, the only difference is updated content referring to GDPR compliance but that each book is no less compliant that the other

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Book SynopsisImagine being physically denied access to your office, business or livelihood. Imagine being refused entry to a shop or being told who you can or cannot sit with at a restaurant. Imagine being barred from a hospital room when you or your family member needs critical care. Unthinkable? Today, these scenarios and worse are happening in ‘democracies’ all over the world, and could be our collective future – orchestrated by AI, Big Tech and state-sponsored apps – all in the name of ‘protecting’ public health with vaccine passports. The stakes could not be higher. If you do not have a vaccine passport, you will be prevented from accessing basic services, from earning a living or travelling within your own country. Even if you do have one, you will be exposed to unprecedented levels of government and corporate surveillance, data mining and behavioural control. In Scanned, investigative journalist Nick Corbishley examines and exposes the lies and overreach that underpin the wholesale erosion of personal freedoms that is happening at an alarming rate. In clear language supported by rigorous research, Corbishley uncovers how the rollout of vaccine passports not only represents an unprecedented violation of privacy and bodily autonomy, but how it perpetuates the idea that a ‘small’ collective sacrifice will allow us to return to normality. If things continue on the current path, Corbishley makes clear, getting back to ‘normal’ is never happening. Put simply, instead of a return to normality, we will see the creation of a starkly different form of existence in which most of us will have virtually no agency over our own lives. Inside Scanned, you’ll also find: The massive implications of a tech-enabled digital ID, social credit systems and biometric tracking How basic freedoms and privacy are being handed over to the state and private companies without our knowledge or consent How government programmes and increased surveillance will facilitate discrimination, segregation and stigmas for huge segments of the population Few people want to be seen as outliers, especially if it means feeling responsible or being blamed for the suffering and deaths of others. ‘But there is a fundamental flaw in applying the “greater good” argument to vaccine passports,’ Corbishley writes, ‘because the passports themselves offer precious little in the way of potential good – and a huge amount in the way of potential harm.’ This is not a liberal or conservative debate. This is not a vaccinated or unvaccinated debate. This is about freedom, global democracy and how much we are willing to give up. This is about deciding when it is time to say, ‘enough!’Trade Review“Nick Corbishley exposes the intricate web spun by global predators using the principles of mass formation psychosis in order to drive an agenda of worldwide injection of biologically active substances. People entranced in fear and confusion feel their entire existence depends on periodic receipt of grossly unsafe and ineffective products—all to live the day-by-day existence they had grown to expect. Corbishley unwinds this madness into an understandable framework with chilling insights about the loss of medical freedom that is inextricably linked to loss of social and economic freedoms. This book is an emergency read.”—Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH; chief medical advisor, Truth for Health Foundation“Scanned by Nick Corbishley is essential reading; this book explains in an incontrovertible way how ‘vaccine passports’ have already closed off basic human liberties in many parts of the formerly free world, and shines a light on the mounting layers of dystopia and control for which they form the foundation. No one should risk missing the information in this book.”—Naomi Wolf, New York Times best-selling author of The End of America and Outrages“‘Show me your papers’ is a phrase that should send chills down the spine of any thinking person. The idea that we would bar free citizens from access to public life because they have chosen to say, ‘No, thank you’ to a pharmaceutical intervention for religious, medical, or philosophical reasons is breathtakingly wrong. Nick Corbishley’s outstanding new book, Scanned, explains why. Anyone who cares about public health and personal freedom needs this book.”—Jennifer Margulis, PhD, award-winning science journalist and best-selling author“The rollout of ‘vaccine passports’ and the broader pseudo-medical social-segregation system they are part of is among the most sinister and alarming threats we have faced in our lifetimes. Under the pretense of ‘keeping us safe and healthy,’ governments, supranational governing entities, and tech corporations have colluded to impose unprecedented restrictions and surveillance on people all around the world. Scanned unpacks the logical insanity of the official ‘vaccine passport’ narrative and describes how mass COVID hysteria has been instrumentalized to consolidate not only wealth and power, but biometric control over ordinary citizens.”—C. J. Hopkins, award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist

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Book SynopsisWhat our health data tell American capitalism about our valueand how that controls our lives. Afterlives of Datafollows the curious and multiple lives that our data live once they escape our control. Mary F. E. Ebeling's ethnographic investigation showshow information about our health and the debt that we carry becomes biopolitical assets owned by healthcare providers, insurers, commercial data brokers, credit reporting companies, and platforms. By delving into the oceans of data built from everyday medical and debt traumas, Ebeling reveals how data about our lives come to affect our bodies and our life chances and to wholly define us. Investigations into secretive data collection and breaches of privacy by the likes of Cambridge Analytica have piqued concerns among many Americans about exactly what is being done with their data. From credit bureaus and consumer data brokers like Equifax and Experian to the secretive military contractor Palantir, this massive industry has little reTrade Review"Well-grounded in current real-world issues, this text is both highly informative and approachable for readers thanks to the author's clear explanations and aptly chosen references. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Ebeling’s book sheds light on the point where our health and debt data meet. . . .this book’s valuable insights into how data, power, and ideology fortify each other in today’s data-based society can be extended to many other fields within the social sciences." * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Data Lives On 1. Tracing Life through Data 2. Building Trust Where Data Divides 3. Collecting Life 4. Mobilizing Alternative Data 5. On Scoring Life 6. Data Visibilities Epilogue: Afterlife Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMalignant is punchy and persuasive, and the author is clearly in command of his subject matter. Prasad offers valuable advice on how to keep up with research as well as the appropriate way to analyse clinical trial reports.—Talha K Burki, The Lancet HematologyAimed at general readers (including patients), oncology trainees and experts in health-care policy, it informs and disturbs throughout.—Andrew Robinson, NaturePatients should ask their oncologist how good the cure is: do I really live longer and better than doing "nothing"? Let them start by asking whether their doctor has read Prasad's book.—Zurich Weekly News Review[Malignant is] so applicable to the issues of the pandemic . . . Because what we're seeing is a research infrastructure that is not set up to do rapid evaluation, and to be resilient and to respond to a health crisis.—Marty Makary, MD, MPH, MedPage TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Cancer Drugs: The Outcomes They Improve and at What PriceChapter 1. The Basics of Cancer Drugs: Cost, Benefit, Value Chapter 2. Surrogate Endpoints in Cancer: What Are They and Where Are They Used? Chapter 3. The Use and Misuse of Surrogate Endpoints for Drug Approvals Chapter 4. How High Prices Harm Patients and SocietyPart II. Societal Forces That Distort Cancer MedicineChapter 5. Hype, Spin, and the Unbridled Enthusiasm That Distorts Cancer MedicineChapter 6. Financial Conflict of InterestChapter 7. The Harms of Financial Conflicts and How to Rehabilitate MedicineChapter 8. Will Precision Oncology Save Us?Part III. How to Interpret Cancer Evidence and TrialsChapter 9. Study Design 201Chapter 10. Principles of Oncology PracticeChapter 11. Important Trials in OncologyChapter 12. Global OncologyPart IV. SolutionsChapter 13. How Should Cancer Drug Development Proceed?Chapter 14. What Can Three Federal Agencies Do Tomorrow? Chapter 15. What Can People with Cancer Do?Chapter 16. What Can Students, Residents, and Fellows Do?Epilogue: The Hallmarks of Successful Cancer PolicyGlossary ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisPublic health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would allow improvements to the health of everyone, especially the worst off. Yet many citizens actively oppose state interference to improve population health, complaining that it encroaches on personal liberty. How should policymakers reconcile these conflicting priorities?This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy. Novel, theoretically rigorous, yet practical, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy examines why it is so common for public policies to fail in practice to improve the problems they aim to solve, and what to do about this. It argues that a shift to complex systems approaches to policymaking is overdue. Philosophers need to become much more attuned to the contingenTrade ReviewJames Wilson's clear and tightly argued new book, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State, endeavors to carve out a space for a pragmatic, practice oriented philosophy in the world of public health policy making...I would recommend the book to those who are curious about methodology in normative ethics and about how to make scholarly endeavors more readily applicable to tough political and policy problems. * Kathryn MacKay, University of Sydney, Ethics *Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Philosophy for Public Policy 2: Evidence, Mechanisms and Complexity 3: Internal and External Validity in Ethical Reasoning 4: Ethics for Complex Systems Part II: Beyond the Neglectful State: an Ethical Framework for Public Health 5: Paternalism, Autonomy and the Common Good: Infringing liberty for the Sake of Health 6: The Right to Public Health 7: Which Risks to Health Matter Most? Part III: Structural Justice 8: Responsibility 9: Measuring and Combatting Health Related Inequalities 10: Communicable Disease 11: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFive years after publication of the third edition, and reflecting the dynamic nature of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries (as well as the many different areas of law that pertain to the management of these medical technologies), the Fourth Edition incorporates the latest legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments, describes recent scientific advances, and excerpts or references new scholarly contributions to this broad field (the wealth of citations should facilitate use in a seminar setting). Measured by volume, more than 20% of the previous edition has been replaced with new material. The latest edition retains the same basic thematic approach and modular structure of the original, which allows instructors to pick and choose the materials to cover based on their own tastes and areas of expertise.

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Book SynopsisOur fear of cancer causes great harm to individual health and to society. The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing Cancerphobia, David Ropeik reveals the fascinating historical and psychological roots of our fear of cancer and documents the dramatic health and financial harms caused when that fear exceeds the risk. Fear of cancer drives millions for whom screening is not recommended to screen for the disease anyway, producing tens of thousands of emotionally damaging false positives and costing the US health care system an estimated $9.2 billion a year. At the same time, fear of cancer also causes many people for whom screening is recommended to avoid it altogether. Modern screening technologies often identify cancers that do not spread or that grow so slowly they almost certainly will never cause harm in a person's lifetime. Yet many of these peoplTrade ReviewAs an oncologist and caregiver of a spouse with cancer, I felt very close to the issues raised and the coverage of the subject matter. I hope that this book will reach a broad audience to stimulate an open discussion on this topic.—John L. Marshall, MD, Georgetown University HospitalTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One. The Origins of Our Fear of CancerChapter 1. The Historical RootsChapter 2. The Psychological RootsPart Two. The Costs to IndividualsChapter 3. Overscreening, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment: An OverviewChapter 4. Breast Cancer: When Worry Causes Us to Do Too MuchChapter 5. Prostate Cancer: When Worry Causes Us to Do Too MuchChapter 6. Thyroid Cancer: When Worry Causes Us to Do Too MuchChapter 7. Lung Cancer: When Worry Causes Us to Do Too MuchChapter 8. Colorectal Cancer: When Worry Causes Us to Do Too MuchChapter 9. Underscreening: When Fear Scares Us Out of Doing EnoughChapter 10. Delayed Diagnosis: When Fear Scares Us Out of Doing EnoughPart Three. The Costs to SocietyChapter 11. The Stunning Economic Cost of Our Sometimes Excessive Fear of CancerChapter 12. Environmentalism's Contribution to Our Fear of CancerChapter 13. Other Societal Impacts of Our Fear of CancerPart Four. Reducing the CostsChapter 14. Combating CancerphobiaChapter 15. Combating Cancerphobia in YourselfAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEvery doctor should read this book.—JAMA Internal Medicine[A]n excellent and realistic discussion of some of the horror stories that occur in medical practice . . . The examples are quite interesting and certainly educational for all readers. Highly recommended.—ChoiceEnding Medical Reversal goes far in teaching medical students and practicing physicians alike how to learn on our own.—The LancetThis has to be on the reading list for medical and nursing students.—Nursing TimesEnding Medical Reversal presents persuasive evidence that many current standard-of-care treatments are probably ineffective or harmful, thoroughly explains how such treatments came to be accepted, and proposes a number of ways to address the general problem (only some of which involve avaricious companies and mercenary physicians) and minimize its impact on a specific patient.—Journal of Clinical Research Best PracticesDr. Prasad and Dr. Cifu offer a five-step plan, including pointers for determining if a given treatment is really able to do what you want it to do, and advice on finding a like-minded doctor who won't object to a certain amount of back-seat driving.—The New York TimesWhen I describe Ending Medical Reversal as revolutionary, I don't use the term lightly. Go out and read it—right now.—Common Sense Family DoctorShould be considered for undergraduate reading lists. Keep a copy in the pharmacy or your briefcase as a great icebreaker or discussion point with other local healthcare professionals.—The Pharmaceutical JournalTable of ContentsIntroductionPart IExamples, Frequency, and Consequences1. What Is Medical Reversal?2. Subjective OutcomesWhy Feeling Better Is Often Misleading3. Surrogate Outcomes4. Screening Tests5. Systems Failure6. Finding Flawed Therapies on Our Own7. The Frequency of Medical Reversal8. The Harms of Medical ReversalToday's Patients, Tomorrow's Patients, and the Health-Care FieldPart II9. A Primer on Evidence-Based MedicineWhat Is Evidence in Medicine?10. What Really Made You BetterWhen Evidence Gets ComplicatedPart III11. Scientific Progress, Revolution, and Medical Reversal12. Sources of Flawed Data13. Why Are We So Attracted to Flawed Therapies?Part IV14. Medical EducationA Very Good Place to Start15. Academic Medicine16. Reforming the SystemThe Burden of Proof and Nudging Our Way Past Reversal17. How Not to Become a Victim of Reversal18. Beyond DogmaWhen Randomized Trials Are UnnecessaryAcknowledgmentsAppendixReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres. One of the more important recent trends in global health governance, though, has been the rise of public-private partnerships (PPPs) where private non-governmental organizations, for-profit enterprises, and various other social entrepreneurs work hand-in-hand with governments to combat specific maladies. A primary driver for this development is the widespread belief that by joining together, PPPs will attack health problems and fund shared efforts more effectively than other systems. As Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar show in Governing Global Health, these partnerships are not only importanTrade ReviewThis is not only a timely and original book, but also a model of concise scholarship. After a quarter of a century working in the arena of global health, it wasn't until I read this book that I understood fully either the major institutions with which we so often work or the challenges before us now. Furthermore, Clinton and Sridhar have managed a minor miracle: they've made dry matters of governance interesting and even entertaining. This engaging study deserves a broad audience. Since the survival of tens of millions hang in the balance, as does the well-being of most on this planet, the stakes are greater than we know." - Paul Farmer MD, Partners In Health and Harvard Medical SchoolWho runs the world and why? Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar ask this audacious question in this powerful and uncompromising book. They unmask the big four global health institutions of our era for the first time. Governing Global Health is a monumental achievement. Anyone seriously interested in the health of the world simply has to read it." - Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor and Founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law, Georgetown Law SchoolThe landscape of 'global health' is so fragmented, with so many agencies and private players in the picture, that it can be impossible to figure out who is in charge of everything from outbreaks to battling the tobacco industry. The adage, 'follow the money' too often leads to dead ends and bewildering arrays of public health players. Clinton and Sridhar have done a wonderful job of pulling the elusive pieces into focus, creating a must-read guide for students and practitioners of global health." - Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, and author of The Coming PlagueClinton and Sridhar provide a unique insight in global health governance in a very rigorous and well documented analysis. A must for anybody working in global health, global governance and international affairs." - Peter Piot, Director & Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical MedicineTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviations1. Governing Global Health2. Big Questions and Case Studies3. Shifts in Governance4. Who Funds Global Health?5. T wenty-First-Century Governance6. Disruption and Reform7. Final ReflectionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA concise history of how American law has shaped—and been shaped by—the experience of contagionTrade Review“In this brief and readable account, Mr. Witt describes the history of American efforts to prevent pandemics from breaking out and to grapple with them once they do.”—Adam J. White, Wall Street Journal“This thoughtful text asks readers to reflect upon the ways that epidemics reveal the nation’s weaknesses and its inequities, and to learn from a troublesome past so that we might walk toward a progressive future. A timely and accessible history of public health law.”—Erica Dunbar, Rutgers University“Professor Witt’s book is an original and thoughtful contribution to the interdisciplinary study of disease and American law. Although he covers the broad sweep of the American experience of epidemics from Yellow Fever to Covid-19, he is especially timely in his exploration of the legal background to the current disaster of the American response to the coronavirus. A thought-provoking, readable, and important work.”—Frank Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society"With this urgently needed book, John Witt has accomplished the seemingly impossible. In short order, he has produced a complex, authoritative, and accessible synthetic history of the interrelationship of law, epidemic, and public health regulation in America. As we again navigate the tortuous crises of pandemic, Witt's long history of the interplay of public safety, state power, legal right, and social exclusion brings a most welcome and necessary perspective and context."—William Novak, author of The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America“In this masterful book, John Fabian Witt knits together history and law to illuminate how deeply the COVID-19 pandemic has divided America, and how public health crises shape law and democracy itself. He guides us through the most consequential choices of our lifetimes, showing us that America can choose equity, compassion, science, and the rule of law.”—Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University“Though caused by mysterious agents invisible to the naked eye, epidemics powerfully reveal the deep structures of power, authority, and inequality in human societies. In this timely, engagingly written, and admirably judicious account, John Fabian Witt vividly narrates the long history of American law’s entanglements with deadly diseases, from colonial times to our own, and offers valuable lessons for the American people in the age of COVID-19.”—Michael Willrich, author of Pox: An American History

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Book SynopsisMicrogeographic units of analysis have moved to the center of criminological inquiry. This Element brings together leading crime-and-place scholars to identify promising areas for future study. Section 1 introduces the Element and the importance of focusing on the future of studies of crime and place. Section 2 examines the development of hot-spots policing and the importance of focusing on its impact on communities. It also looks at how ''pracademics'' can advance the science and practice of place-based policing. Section 3 focuses on place managers as prevention agents and examines how city government can influence crime at place. It further contends that rural communities need to become a key focus of crime-and-place scholarship. Section 4 emphasizes the importance of the connection of health, crime, and place. It also argues for the importance of expanding the methodological tools of crime and place to include careful ethnographic and qualitative research.

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Book SynopsisA handbook to inform school premises staff, business managers, headteachers and governors in England of their legal responsibilities around buildings compliance. As well as exploring the impact of school buildings and grounds on student learning, The School Premises Handbook covers the working environment, fire safety, health and safety, statutory compliance duties, planning for maintenance, risk assessments, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and managing and developing a premises team. Jo Marchant, a highly experienced head of estates, introduces key legislation, further information sources, and an action checklist. New premises staff will find a wealth of information, from what to do on their first day in the role to planning the year-long cycle of maintenance activities. More experienced premises staff will also gain plenty of useful insights. School business managers will find advice on managing premises staff and developing their school estTrade ReviewUseful reference guide and insight to the profession. Whether you are just starting a career in premises management and need to know how to get started, or an experienced premises professional who wants to double-check and brush up on facts and process, this book will provide you with much information and many tips. * James Miller, Estates Director and founding coordinator of The Trust Network *I consider the book as a trusted, time-served, hands-on industry knowledge base and an invaluable bible for school premises management teams, large or small. This first-of-a-kind book should be considered an absolute must for those tasked with recruiting or managing premises staff. * Alan Wilson, Site Manager, Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys *This is just the kind of text to put in the hand of both the new and experienced busy senior leader. It is practically focused and concise, with very systematic approaches to effective estates management. Highly recommended for the busy professional keen to know the details. * Daniel Wright, Headmaster, The London Oratory School *The School Premises Handbook is a book with a common-sense and straightforward approach to one of the most challenging areas of school operations. The book is a go-to resource for all school personnel, from the premises teams on the ground through to senior leaders, and especially valuable for guiding those in governance. * Lynne Fletcher, Schools Resource Management Advisor and National Leader of Governance *Estates management is a critical but often overlooked element of school and trust operations. This comprehensive handbook provides detailed guidance and advice on how to manage the complexities of buildings (new and old), infrastructure and grounds. Virtually no stone is left unturned. * Stephen Morales, Chief Executive, Institute of School Business Leadership *The School Premises Handbook is packed full of advice for school estate professionals and leaders looking to be better informed. Jo Marchant explains the complexities of legislation and regulation, providing useful guides, templates and case studies. Her thoughtful curation means the book can be read from start to finish or by selecting the chapter topics that are most relevant to your role. It is a practical, must-have guide. * Hayley Dunn, Business Leadership Specialist, Association of School and College Leaders *

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Book SynopsisA public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence. Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights. Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well. Arguing that excessive policTrade ReviewMany public health readers of From Enforcers to Guardians will come away with the centrality of better data to improve transparency and accountability. This book meets a critical need that sets public health on a path to fewer lives cut short, the goal of our field. It also creates room for additional conversations to address what is still missing. That is why it is such an important book.—Mary T. Bassett MD, MPH, American Journal of Public HealthA thoughtful, incisive public health primer on the deeply entrenched and damaging practice of police brutality.—World Medical & Health PolicyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceTimelineChapter 1. Coming to TermsPart I. Distorted Policing and Its OriginsChapter 2. Peelers and Slave PatrolsChapter 3. Community CollapseChapter 4. War on DrugsPart II. Measuring Distorted Policing and Its EffectsChapter 5. Public Health InvestigationsChapter 6. Pattern and Practice Investigations I: Distorted Policing in Urban Contexts 000Chapter 7. Pattern and Practice Investigations II: Types of Violence Documented 000Part III. Getting to GuardianshipChapter 8. Interventions That Have Been TriedChapter 9. A Magic StrategyConclusion. Moving ForwardAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten in the context of the #BlackLivesMatter protests, this book explores why law enforcement responses to a public health emergency are prioritised over welfare provision and what this tells us about the state's criminal justice institutions.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Policing 'the public' as a virus 2. The order of public health 3. Safety without police: an abolitionist provocation

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Book SynopsisThe effects of COVID-19 are visited disproportionately on the already disadvantaged. This important text maps out ways in which those already disadvantaged have been affected by legal responses to COVID-19. Contributors tackle issues including virtual trials, adult social care, racism, tax and spending, education and more. They reflect on the implications of COVID-19 and express concerns with policy and practice developments and with the neutral version of the law and the economy which has taken root. Drawing on diverse resources, this text offers an account of the damage caused by legal responses to the pandemic and demonstrates how the future response can be positive and productive.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Dave Cowan and Ann Mumford Part 1 ~ Justice Ruling the Pandemic ~ Dave Cowan Remote Justice and Vulnerable Litigants: The Case of Asylum ~ Nick Gill Virtual Poverty? What Happens When Criminal Trials Go Online? ~ Linda Mulcahy Genera-Relational Justice in the COVID-19 Recovery Period: Children in the Criminal Justice System ~ Kathryn Hollingsworth Racism As Legal Pandemic: Thoughts on Critical Legal Pedagogies ~ Foluke Adebisi and Suhraiya Jivraj Rights and Solidarity During COVID-19 ~ Simon Halliday, Jed Meers and Joe Tomlinson COVID-19 PPE Extremely Urgent Procurement in England: A Cautionary Tale for an Overheating Public Governance ~ Albert Sanchez-Graells Part 2 ~ the Social Accountability for Health and the NHS in Post-Brexit COVID-19 UK: The ‘Left Behind’ and the Rule of Law ~ Tamara Hervey, Ivanka Antova, Mark Flear and Matthew Wood COVID-19 in Adult Social Care: Futures, Funding and Fairness ~ Rosie Harding Housing, Homelessness and COVID-19 ~ Rowan Alcock, Helen Carr and Ed Kirton-Darling Education, Austerity and the COVID-19 Generation ~ Alison Struthers What Have We Learned About the Corporate Sector in COVID-19? ~ Sally Wheeler Social Security Under and After COVID-19 ~ Jed Meers Maintaining the Divide: Labour Law and COVID-19 ~ Katie Bales From Loss to (Capital) Gains: Reflections on Tax and Spending in the Pandemic Aftermath ~ Ann Mumford and Kathleen Lahey

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Book SynopsisDespite being least affected by the virus itself, children and young people bore the brunt of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. When schools were closed, playgrounds taped up and play outlawed, children’s lives were closed down. The catastrophic impact on children and young people’s education, mental health, wellbeing, and life chances is becoming ever clearer, with the most disadvantaged suffering disproportionately. In May 2020 Liz Cole and Molly Kingsley founded UsForThem to advocate – in an often hostile climate – for children to be prioritised during the pandemic response. Having heard from thousands of families, and having often clashed with policymakers, they have a unique perspective on how the state’s response to the pandemic has affected our children. Here they document their shocking findings: how completely children’s health and welfare were sacrificed for that of adults; how policymakers appeared to disregard the harms they were causing; and how adults charged with protecting the young stood by and watched as children visibly struggled or slipped out of sight altogether. This dereliction of duty should haunt us for decades to come. With exclusive testimony from academics, politicians, scientists, educators, and parents, as well as former Children’s Commissioners, the book exposes the problems at the heart of policymaking which led to the systemic and ongoing betrayal of children. From public health to politics, and from media discourse to safeguarding, the authors show how children were too often used as the means to further adult interests. Ahead of the public inquiry, the authors call for an honest appraisal of what went wrong, and commitment from stakeholders to reimagine – not just recover – childhood.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative guide to the law of continuing healthcare provides clarity on a contentious issue for those in long-term care: which adults are eligible for full NHS funding, as opposed to self-funded social care.Written by seasoned legal expert Michael Mandelstam, it provides practitioners with clear information on both the letter and spirit of the law, written in an accessible style suitable for a wide range of health and social care practitioners. The book gives all the need-to-knows in a handy A-Z format for quick reference, including key legal rules, guidance and case law.It contains also an extended analysis, with detailed evidence, of NHS continuing healthcare over the last 30 years up to the present. This is critical in order to understand why the rules are so complex, confusing and sometimes disregarded, and why decisions can seem counter-intuitive, unfair and difficult to challenge.The book is essential reading to assist the making of decisions that are fair, lawful and transparent.Trade ReviewThis book provides a fantastic overview of NHS continuing healthcare and is written to give people the information they need. It is incredibly helpful for people who want to learn more about CHC and equip themselves for the often laborious process of applying for it. -- Alzheimer’s SocietyThis excellent book should be essential reading for the Secretary of State for Health and all health service managers and social workers involved in CHC decision making. It is my hope this book will put the woeful application of CHC decision-making back under the spotlight and into the national conversation. -- Simon Bull C.Q.S.W., Assistant Borough Solicitor, Bracknell CouncilTable of ContentsPreface1.Introduction2.Basic rules and common pitfalls 3.Background, explanation and evidence of a dysfunctional system4.Chapter 4: A-Z ListAdaptations, see Home adaptationsAccommodation and NHS continuing healthcareAdvocacy and NHS continuing healthcareAids to daily living, see EquipmentAltered states of consciousness, see Decision Support ToolAppropriate clinician (end of life)AssessmentBreathing, see Decision Support ToolCare Act 2014CarersCase managementChallenging behaviourChallenging decisionsCharging for services, see Means-testingChecklistChildrenClinical commissioning groupsCognition, see Decision Support ToolCommunication, see Decision Support ToolCompetence, see: Expertise of assessors and knowledge of the patientCommissioning support unitsComplexityConsentConsultation in decision-makingContinence, see Decision Support ToolContinuity of careCoordinatorCooperationCost-effectivenessCoughlan caseDecision-making processDecision support tool (DST)Delay Deprivation of libertyDiagnosisDirect paymentsDiscriminationDispute resolution between NHS and social servicesDisputes between person and the NHSDomains of need, see Decision support toolDouble scoringDowry payments, see Legacy paymentsDrug therapies and medication, see Decision Support ToolEducation, health and care plansEligibility End of life, see Fast track PathwayEquipmentEvidence of need Expertise of assessors, and knowledge of the patientFamily involvement, see: Person and family involvementFast track pathway tool (end of life)Final decisions about CHC eligibility, see Clinical commissioning groupsFinancial gatekeeping, see Final decision-making; ResourcesFunded nursing careGap between health and social care Gatekeeping, see Financial gatekeepingGrogan caseGuidanceHealth care needsHealth Service OmbudsmanHealth services generallyHome adaptationsHospicesHospital dischargeIncidental or ancillary or of a nature beyond social servicesIndependent review panelsIndicative casesInformal carers, see CarersInput (of care)IntensityInterim provision of care during assessment and decisionJoint fundingJoint workingJudicial reviewLearning disabilityLegal frameworkLegal cases, see Indicative casesLegal remedies, see Disputes between person and the NHSLocal authorities, see Social ServicesLocal Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) Means-testingMeeting needMental capacityMental health aftercareMental Health Act 1983, see Mental health aftercareMobility, see Decision Support ToolMulti-disciplinary teamNational Framework on NHS Continuing HealthcareNational Health Service Act 2006NatureNHS-employed staffNHS EnglandNorthern IrelandNurse assessorsNutrition, see Decision Support ToolPanelsPaying privately, see Private carePeople's own homesPerson and family involvementPersonal health budgetsPersonal injury compensationPredictable unpredictabilityPointon casePrimary decision makerPrimary health needPrivate top-up careProcess, see Decision makingProfessional judgementProhibitions Psychological and emotional needs, see Decision support toolPublic Service Ombudsman for WalesQuality of care, see NatureQuantity of care, see Incidental or AncillaryReferral for NHS continuing healthcareRegistered nursingRehabilitation and recoveryReimbursementRemedies, see DisputesResourcesRespite careResponsible commissioner, see Clinical commissioning groupsReview of decision about CHC see DisputesReviewing care packageSafeguardingScotlandScreening, see ChecklistSection 117, Mental Health Act, see Mental health after careSettingSkin, see Decision Support ToolSocial careSocial services Specialist staffTimescales, see DelayTopping up, see Private top-up careTrainingTransitionUnpredictabilityWalesWell managed needsWithdrawal of care

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Book SynopsisThe Care Act 2014 represents a major upheaval in adult social care law: the biggest since 1948. This book sets out and explains the provisions of the Care Act 2014 in simple terms, illustrating its practical implications for both social and health care with many legal cases and local ombudsman investigations. It also includes a substantial section on NHS Continuing Health Care and how it relates to the Care Act.Presented in a handy A - Z format, Michael Mandelstam brings his extensive experience in this field to bear on this new, important piece of legislation. It is essential reading for health and social care managers and practitioners, advocates, lawyers, policy makers and students of social work and social policy.Table of ContentsAdvice and information. Advocacy. Appeals system. Assessment. Autism Act 2009. Better Care Fund. Blanket policies. Box ticking. Business failure. Care and support (and support). Care and support plans or support plans. Care cap. Care home accommodation. Care home fees. Care Programme Approach. Care providers. Care Quality Commission (CQC). Carers. Challenging decisions. Changes and closures. Charging. Children. Children and transition. Choice of accommodation. Clinical commissioning groups. Community equipment. Complaints. Continuity of social care: moving area. Continuing health care (CHC). Cooperation. Cross-border placements. Deferred payments. Delay. Delegation of functions. Direct payments. Divide between social care and health care. Divide between social care and housing. Duties and powers. Eligibility. Eligibility of adults. Eligibility of carers. Enquiries: making enquiries into abuse or neglect. Equality Act 2010. Funded nursing care. GuidanceCommission. Health Service Ombudsman (HSO). Home adaptations. Home care visits. Hospital discharge. Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA). Human rights. Immigration and asylum. Independent Living Fund (ILF). Integration. Judicial review. Local Government Ombudsman. Localism Act 2011. Market shaping. Mental capacity. Mental Health Act 1983 (section 117 after-care). National Health Service (NHS). Needs. Neglect and abuse. Northern Ireland. Nursing care. Occupational therapy. Ordinary residence. Outcomes. Overseas visitors (NHS). Panels. Personal budgets. Personal care. Powers of entry. Prevention. Principles in the Care Act. Prisons. Protection of property. Public health. Reablement. Refusal of service. Registers. Regulatory Reform (Housing Assistance) (England and Wales) Order 2002. Rehabilitation. Removing people from their homes. Resources. Respite care. Reviewing need. Safeguarding. Safeguarding adults boards. Safeguarding adults reviews. Scotland. Services. Shared lives accommodation. Social work. Supported living. Support. Urgent need. Wales. Well-being. Wheelchairs. Wilful neglect and ill treatment.

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Book Synopsis, bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can strengthen caring as provided by health professionals, families, communities, and society.Trade ReviewThe text is chock full of the thoughts of some of America's leading experts on the caring side of health care. This book should be read by any health care professional with an interest in this dimension of health care and is a must read for the medical community. A marvelous text. -- Joseph A. LiebermanIII, M.D.M.P.H. Journal of the American Medical Association On the whole, this volume deepens our understanding and appreciation of the importance of caring for all who are in need of personal attention and assistance when ill and disabled. The contributors seem to have given much thought to their chapters, weaving together personal stories, clinical experiences, research findings, and proposals for change. -- Else M. Kiefer Health Progress A remarkable broad and well-integrated package of philosophy and fact, a valuable and compact resource for health care professionals, as well as legislators and social scientists. -- John A. Benson, Jr., M.D. PharosTable of ContentsContents: I Caring and the Populations in Need of It Our Need for Caring: Vulnerability and Illness Who Needs Caring? Caring and Mental Illness II The Provision of Caring A History of Caring in Medicine Forces Affecting Caring by Physicians Caring and Medical Education Caring in Institutional Settings Home and Community-Based Care: Toward a Caring Paradigm Caring and Community-Based Voluntary Organizations III Assessments of Caring Appraising the Success of Caring The Politics of Caring

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Book SynopsisPublic health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would allow improvements to the health of everyone, especially the worst off. Yet many citizens actively oppose state interference to improve population health, complaining that it encroaches on personal liberty. How should policymakers reconcile these conflicting priorities?This groundbreaking book argues that philosophy is not just useful, but vital, for thinking coherently about priorities in health policy and public policy. Novel, theoretically rigorous, yet practical, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy examines why it is so common for public policies to fail in practice to improve the problems they aim to solve, and what to do about this. It argues that a shift to complex systems approaches to policymaking is overdue. Philosophers need to become much more attuned to the contingency and messiness of real-world policymaking, and to the ways in which philosophical tools such as thought experiments are frequently unreliable.The book also provides an ethical framework for public health policy. It argues that public health is a right of citizens, alongside more familiar rights such as liberty and security. Public health should not be thought of merely as interference with the rights that individuals have, but as necessary to protect these rights. Chapters explore implications for resource allocation, personal responsibility, health equity, and the control of communicable disease.Trade ReviewJames Wilson's clear and tightly argued new book, Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State, endeavors to carve out a space for a pragmatic, practice oriented philosophy in the world of public health policy making...I would recommend the book to those who are curious about methodology in normative ethics and about how to make scholarly endeavors more readily applicable to tough political and policy problems. * Kathryn MacKay, University of Sydney, Ethics *an important, well-argued, and well-written book… Agree with him or not that there is a right to public health, and that we need to evolve our methods and methodology of reasoning in applied political philosophy, this book will keep you thinking about the ideas presented therein long after you've finished it. I'm confident that Wilson's book will become a touchstone in public health ethics for years to come. * Diego Silva, Public Health Ethics *

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Book SynopsisThis book is a leadership guide to the effective implementation of the ISO 45001:2018 standard. It takes the high-level leadership and top management principles put forward in ISO 45001 and develops them into a comprehensive discourse on how, at the very top of any organization, large or small, leaders can drive the occupational health and safety (OH&S) agenda and ensure the effective implementation of the OH&S management systems. While the standard sets out expectations for top management, this book provides a clear explanation of the OH&S roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities between those who direct the organization and drive it towards achieving its strategic aims and those who lead the day-to-day operations. It puts forward a purposeful, easy-to-follow, and effective system for the implementation of ISO 45001 whilst also, and more importantly, maximizing the value proposition of such a global standard, regardless of industry. The book is written for tTable of Contents1. Effective health and safety governance and leadership 2. Value creation through high reliability 3. The model for effective health and safety governance and ;eadership: The health and safety role of the board 4. Health and safety in strategic and business planning 5. Policy setting: setting the "Tone from the Top" 6. Setting the plan, targets, and ensuring integration with the business plans and creating ingredients for success 7. Stewardship for implementation of the health and safety plan 8. Ensuring effectiveness, performance oversight, and continual improvement 9. Training and implementation 10. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe recent pandemic has clarified the overwhelming connection between the workplace and technology. With thousands of employees suddenly forced to work at home, a large segment of the workforce quickly received crash courses in videoconferencing and other technologies, and society as a whole took a step back to redefine what employment actually means. The virtual workplace is the blending of brick-and-mortar physical places of business with the advanced technologies that now make it possible for workers to perform their duties outside of the office. Trying to regulate in this area requires the application of decades old employment laws to a context never even contemplated by the legislatures that wrote those rules. This book explores the emerging issues of virtual workdefining employment, litigating claims, aggregating cases, unionizing workers, and preventing harassmentand provides clarity to these areas, synthesizing the current case law, statutory rules, and academic literature to pTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Who is an employee?; 3. Pleading standards and the technology sector; 4. Aggregating claims; 5. Collective bargaining agreements and unions in the modern economy; 6. Harassment and the virtual workplace; 7. A few final thoughts.

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Book SynopsisThis eminently relevant and thoroughly entertaining book reminds us that understanding more about health care helps us understand the larger world around us. With technological advances and information sharing so prevalent, health care should be more transparent and easier to access than ever before. So why does it seem like everything about itfrom pricing, drug development, and the emergence of new diseases to the intricacies of biologic and precision medicine therapiesis becoming more complex, not less?Rohit Khanna's Misunderstanding Health examines some of today's most revealing health care trends while imploring us to look at these issues with alacrity, humor, and vigilance. Over the course of eighteen short, engaging chapters, Khanna explains how unexamined beliefs can endanger patients, drive cost, and increase bureaucracy the Dr. Google effect on the ways that we seek (or eschew) care why our health care costs more than in any other country the unintended consequences of usiTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. All the King's MenChapter 2. Heads I Win, Tails You LoseChapter 3. The UnHappiness ProjectChapter 4: Customer SatisfactionChapter 5. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking ForChapter 6. The Rating GameChapter 7. The Mother of All NudgesChapter 8. Your Health Is about More Than Just Your HealthChapter 9. Needle in a HaystackChapter 10. Ghost in the MachineChapter 11. The Eye of the StormChapter 12. HomesickChapter 13. Reefer MadnessChapter 14. Customer AppreciationChapter 15. Under the InfluenceChapter 16. Data DumpChapter 17. Catch Me If You CanChapter 18. Let Freedom RingConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Care Standards Act 2000 came into force in April 2002 and provides for the administration of a variety of care institutions, including children''s homes, independent hospitals, nursing and residential care homes.This Act replaces the Registered Homes Act 1984 and those parts of the Childrens Act 1989 which are relevant to the care or the accommodation of children. It is a major piece of legislation which seeks to substantially reform the law relating to the inspection and regulation of homes. This book provides an in-depth guide to the new framework and offers advice on the practical and procedural effects. It also covers judicial review procedures and the potential human rights implications of the new Act.

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking study offers valuable insight into not only how medicalization got to this point but how it may continue to evolve.Trade ReviewAn accessible yet nuanced introduction to a fascinating and important topic. Readers do not need any background in medicine or academic sociology to appreciate Conrad's inquiry, and the experience of living in the 21st century United States is enough to understand what he's talking about. -- Benjamin J. Lovett Metapsychology 2007 Conrad's fine work investigates and illuminates this baleful phenomenon. -- A. Mark Clarfield, MD, FRCPC JAMA 2007 This is an enjoyable and thought-provoking book. -- H. Russell Searight PsycCRITIQUES 2007 The text is useful, especially for medical students... Recommended. Choice 2008 Recommended reading for practicing physicians, or better yet, for physicians in training. The so-called gatekeepers need to be reminded (or initially trained to understand) that reductionist medical perspectives are problematic and that the best solutions account for the social complexity that is inherent in the human condition. -- Michael Fendrich, Ph.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2008 An invaluable synopsis of 30 years' scholarship... Clearly written and presented so that it should be accessible to students in both sociology and health studies... An immense contribution to medical sociology. -- Robert Dingwall Society 2008 Conrad's accomplishment is significant. The Medicalization of Society is simply the most lucid treatise on the patterns and consequences of medicalization to date. It is also a much needed warning about the darker side of medicalization. -- Regina Smardon Culture 2008 This is an extremely interesting, timely and thought-provoking book, which will have a wide appeal amongst academics. Medical sociologists will welcome the opportunity to see Conrad's various writings brought together in one volume, and will appreciate the way he has revisited and updated his own work. -- Susie Scott Health Sociology Review 2008 The issues raised by this monograph are important, complex, and increasingly relevant for all of us who live in the modern world. -- S. Elizabeth Whitmore Themelios 2008 Peter Conrad's book is largely comprised of a series of case studies used to illustrate the changing nature of medicalization... With his 30-year history of studying this topic, Conrad is just the right person to take on the task, and this book represents a significant contribution to the area. -- Heather Hartley Contemporary Sociology 2009 Peter Conrad is the doyen of studies in medicalization. From his work on hyperactivity in the 1970s to his more recent research on 'geniticization' Conrad has documented the twists and turns of medical involvement in an ever increasing range of human problems. In this new book he does more than offer a reprise of his work or of the field. Rather, he sets out an illustrated framework for understanding and studying medicalization, with a view to future possible developments as well as current debates. -- Mike Bury Sociology of Health and Illness 2009 This short, tightly written, highly readable book deals with issues, often previously regarded as normal aging or personality flaws, that have moved under the domain of medicine... An important book that will find many readers among the general public as well as among physicians... highly recommended as required reading for medical school courses. -- Charles V. Ford Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: Concepts1. Medicalization: Context, Characteristics, and ChangesPart II: Cases2. Extension: Men and the Medicalization of Andropause, Baldness, and Erectile Dysfunction3. Expansion: From Hyperactive Children to Adult ADHD4. Enhancement: Human Growth Hormone and the Temptations of Biomedical Enhancement5. Continuity: Homosexuality and the Potential for RemedicalizationPart III: Constraints and Consequences6. Measuring Medicalization: Categories, Numbers, and Treatment7. The Shifting Engines of Medicalization8. Medicalization and Its DiscontentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book includes an analysis of the constitutionality of many recommended policies and data from a national public opinion poll that reflects support among the majority of Americans-including gun owners-for stronger gun policies.Trade ReviewA masterful, timely, data-driven edited volume on gun control policy options in the U.S. The contributors use a public health lens to examine gun violence and explore issues ranging from mental health concerns to suicide... The strength of this book is the mixed-method approach in compiling information on many policy options related to gun control, which utilizes case studies and quantitative evidence to make the case for policy change... The contributors are optimistic and lay out concrete policy options in ways that are both sophisticated and easily accessible to all. Choice An anthology of studies, condensing and summarizing the actual state of our knowledge about the subject of gun violence in this country-what real, tested social science shows. -- Adam Gopnik New Yorker Surprisingly accessible and startlingly grim. Thankfully, the editors have done an excellent job organizing the material, which moves from current policy shortcomings to proposals for federal reforms. The debate that's raging might leave you feeling hopeless, which this book suggests otherwise. -- John Lewis Baltimore Magazine This is a 'must' for any concerned about gun control. Midwest Book Review We've all heard the saying that when arguing we should 'disagree without being disagreeable' but, when it comes to guns, we often find ourselves disagreeing without actually disagreeing. Most Americans believe in some kinds of gun control. Most Americans recognize the 'right to bear arms'. Most agree that expanded background checks can be useful in keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous or irresponsible people. Considering that there is so much agreement on basic policy, what the gun debate desperately needs is sober clear-headed analysis. Reducing Gun Violence in America edited by Daniel Webster contributes greatly to this need. -- Shawn Hamilton New Books in Public PolicyTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Gun Policy Lessons From the United States: Keeping Guns From High-Risk Individuals Chapter 1. Firearms and Violent Death in the United StatesChapter 2. The Limited Impact of the Brady Act: Evaluation and ImplicationsChapter 3. Preventing Gun Violence Involving People with Serious Mental IllnessChapter 4. Evidence for Optimism: Policies to Limit Batterers' Access to GunsChapter 5. Reconsidering the Adequacy of Current Conditions on Legal Firearm OwnershipChapter 6. Broadening Denial Criteria for the Purchase and Possession of Firearms: Need, Feasibility, and EffectivenessChapter 7. Comprehensive Background Checks for Firearm Sales: Evidence from Gun ShowsChapter 8. Preventing the Diversion of Guns to Criminals throughEffective Firearm Sales LawsChapter 9. Spurring Responsible Firearms Sales Practices through Litigation: The Impact of New York City's Lawsuits against Gun Dealers on Interstate Gun TraffickingChapter 10. Curtailing Dangerous Sales Practices by Licensed Firearm Dealers: Legal Opportunities and ObstaclesPart II: Making Gun Laws EnforceableChapter 11. Enforcing Federal Laws against Firearms Traffickers: Raising Operational Effectiveness by Lowering Enforcement ObstaclesPart III: Gun Policy Lessons From the United States: High-Risk GunsChapter 12. America's Experience with the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, 1994– 2004: Key Findings and ImplicationsChapter 13. Personalized Guns: Using Technology to Save LivesPart IV: International Case Studies of Responses to Gun ViolenceChapter 14. Gun Control in Great Britain aft er the Dunblane ShootingsChapter 15. Rational Firearm Regulation: Evidence- based Gun Laws in AustraliaChapter 16. The Big Melt: How One Democracy Changed aft er Scrapping a Third of Its FirearmsChapter 17. Brazil: Gun Control and Homicide ReductionPart V: Second Amendment Chapter 18. The Scope of Regulatory Authority under the Second AmendmentPart VI: Public Opinion on Gun PolicyChapter 19. Public Opinion on Proposals to Strengthen U.S. Gun Laws: Findings from a 2013 Survey Consensus Recommendations for Reforms to Federal Gun PoliciesBiographies of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA time-tested, landmark approach to health promotion and communication projects and everything that goes into making them successful. For more than 40 years, the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, developed in the early 1970s by Lawrence W. Green and first published as a text in 1980 with Marshall W. Kreuter, Sigrid G. Deeds, and Kay B. Partridge, has been effectively applied worldwide to address a broad range of health issues: risk factors like tobacco and lack of exercise, social determinants of health such as lack of access to transportation and safe housing, and major disease challenges like heart disease and guinea worm disease. In Health Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation, Green and his team of senior editors and chapter authors combine their expertise to offer a high-level guide to public health programming. This guide aligns with foundational public health competencies required by increasingly rigorous certification and accreditation standards. Driven by the coronavirus panTable of ContentsForeword by Jonathan E. FieldingPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the EditorsContributors Part I. Hallmarks of the PRECEDE-PROCEED ModelChapter 1 A Model for Population Health Planning, Implementation, and EvaluationLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, Marshall W. Kreuter, Darleen V. Peterson, and Judith M. Ottoson Chapter 2 Participation and Community Engagement in PlanningLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, and Marshall W. KreuterPart II. PRECEDE-PROCEED Phases: Planning, Implementation, and EvaluationChapter 3 Social Assessment: Quality of LifeLawrence W. Green, Marshall W. Kreuter, and Andrea Carlson GielenChapter 4 Epidemiological Assessment I: Population HealthLawrence W. Green, Andrea Carlson Gielen, and Marshall W. KreuterChapter 5 Epidemiological Assessment II: Behavioral and Environmental FactorsLawrence W. Green, Marshall W. Kreuter, and Andrea Carlson GielenChapter 6 Educational and Ecological Assessment: Predisposing, Enabling, and Reinforcing FactorsMaría E. Fernández, Gerjo Kok, Guy Parcel, and Lawrence W. GreenChapter 7 Health Program and Policy Development I: Intervention StrategiesMichelle C. Kegler and Rodney LynChapter 8 Health Program and Policy Development II: Implementation StrategiesCam Escoffery and Lawrence W. GreenChapter 9 Health Program and Policy Development III: Evaluation StrategiesChris Y. Lovato and Judith M. OttosonPart III. Applications of PRECEDE-PROCEED in Specific SettingsIntroduction to PRECEDE-PROCEED ApplicationsChapter 10 Applications in Community SettingsAmelie G. Ramirez and Patricia ChalelaChapter 11 Applications in Occupational SettingsPaul Terry, Nico Pronk, and Shelley GoldenChapter 12 Applications in School SettingsLloyd J. Kolbe, Holly Hunt, and Faten Ben AbdelazizChapter 13 Applications in Health Care SettingsJohn P. Allegrante and Janey C. PetersonChapter 14 Applications in Communication TechnologyRobert S. GoldAppendixesA. Frequently Asked QuestionsAndrea Carlson Gielen and Vanya C. JonesB. Public Health Competencies by ChapterDarleen V. PetersonC. The Evaluation Standards: A ChecklistD. CDC Evaluation Framework Steps and PRECEDE-PROCEED PhasesE. Commonly Used Evaluation DesignsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisDoes the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?? In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the first six weeks. No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family. In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures—including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking—have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including: How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified? Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it? Vaccines: What are the chances of success? What are the risks? Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts—and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.

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Book SynopsisHow can medical law and ethics take forward the issue of children''s empowerment and protection? What are the key factors in considering the balance between protecting the welfare of the young and allowing them rights to autonomy? The Child as Vulnerable Patient investigates the role that a human rights approach can play in establishing the parameters of autonomy and discusses the opportunities presented in the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on the Rights of the Child and new policy initiatives in the NHS. A valuable addition to existing literature in this area, this volume will be of interest to lawyers, health professionals and students of medical law.Trade Review'The Child as Vulnerable Patient makes a clear and thoughtful argument for empowerment of children as decision-makers in the context of health care and health policy. A valuable addition to the literature in this area, this book will be of interest to lawyers, health professionals and bioethicists.' Belinda Bennett, University of Sydney, Australia 'Hagger provides a sustained argument in favour of according greater weight to young people's autonomy in the health care context and a compelling defence of a human rights framework as the best way to achieve this. Her carefully nuanced approach and close attention to the realities of medical practice should ensure that her book is swiftly established as essential reading for anyone involved in paediatric medicine, as well as a useful resource for health care lawyers and ethicists.' Sally Sheldon, Kent University Law School, UK 'Lynn Hagger makes a carefully argued, up-to-date case for basing decisions in children's and young people's health care much more firmly in the 1998 Human Rights Act and the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Her book summarises and comments on a wealth of relevant law and controversial debates, and ranges from children's individual decisions to their potential greater involvement in health services planning.' Priscilla Alderson, University of London, UK 'In this timely book, Lynn Hagger argues persuasively that a community committed to human rights should strive to respect the health care choices of autonomous children. Whether in clinical or research settings, the trajectory of the law should be to protect children who say "no" while, at the same time, empowering those who want to say "yes".' Roger Brownsword, King's College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface; The importance of protecting and empowering children; The law and children's autonomy; Parental responsibility and children's medical treatment; Confidentiality and children; Genetic testing and counselling: the paradigm case for family medicine?; Negligence and complaints; Children in research; Children's participation and foundation trust: some new opportunities?; Concluding remarks; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Coast Guard is the nations principal law enforcement authority on U.S. waters. Its missions include maritime safety and security, marine environmental protection, search and rescue, drug and migrant interdiction, fisheries enforcement, and defense readiness. The Coast Guards responsibilities are specified in legislation establishing the agency as well as authorization bills typically passed by Congress every one to two years and in Department of Homeland Security appropriations acts.

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Book SynopsisResearch findings showed that secondary school students in Hong Kong face many challenges. In particular, morbid emphasis on academic excellence has created much competition and stress in high school students. It was estimated that around one-fifth of secondary school students in Hong Kong had different forms of mental disorders. In a three-year longitudinal study, it was found that the prevalence rates of Internet addiction in Secondary 1, Secondary 2 and Secondary 3 students were 26.4%, 26.6% and 22.5%, respectively. In the same study, suicidal ideation in junior secondary school students was found in more than one-tenth of the students. At the same time, there were more than two-tenths of students showing signs of self-harm and suicidal behaviour in junior secondary years. The number of adolescents experiencing economic disadvantage has increased while family solidarity has dropped in recent years. In spite of these adolescent developmental issues, the lack of life education and life skills training in secondary school students has made the situation worse. Although moral and civic education is one of the pillars in the new 6-year secondary school curriculum, there are several problems involved. First, the coverage on social and emotional learning in the curriculum guide is very thin. Second, although there are curricula materials on life skills training in the field, validated curricula are almost non-existent. In fact, in a review of adolescent prevention and positive youth development programs in Asia, Shek and Yu pointed out that there were very few validated evidence-based programs in Hong Kong. Third, training in social-emotional learning and adolescent prevention programs is grossly inadequate in Hong Kong. Finally, while nobody would dispute the importance of life skills and psychosocial competence, such topics are seldom taught in depth in the school contexts.

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Book SynopsisThis abridged edition uses the organization and methods that health law teachers and students have found so helpful over the last seven editions of the casebook. This book is designed specifically for survey courses in health law that aim at introducing students to the full range of health law issues in a single survey course. As with the full casebook, this abridged version includes chapters covering health care quality, access, organization, finance, and bioethics, but some sections and chapters of the full casebook are deleted and note material is less comprehensive. This abridged version is well suited for health law courses taught in law schools with a single health law course and for courses taught in health administration, public health, and medical and other health professions programs.

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