Health Policy Books

New and Published Books

1. Using Space: Critical Geographies of Drugs and Alcohol

   Edited by Christopher M. Moreno, Robert Wilton

   The consumption of drugs and alcohol, and the pleasures and problems arising from this consumption, can be understood as embedded and constitutive elements of social, family, and recreational life. At the same time, they are key sites of intervention for a broad array of state and non-state actors...

   Published April 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Chinese State's Retreat from Health

   Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment

   By Jane Duckett

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

   Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

   On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Toward Sustainable Transitions in Healthcare Systems

   Edited by Jacqueline Broerse, John Grin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions

   Over the past decades, a series of reform initiatives have been going through health systems of advanced welfare states, including the control of cost development, the tenability of health systems in globalizing economies, dissatisfaction about quality of treatment or quality of life, and the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Taiwan, Humanitarianism and Global Governance

   By Alain Guilloux

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid. Including case studies on Taiwan’s application to...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. European Union Public Health Policy

   Regional and global trends

   Edited by Scott Greer, Paulette Kurzer

   Series: Routledge Advances in European Politics

   Ranging from influence over world trade laws affecting health to population health issues such as obesity to the use of comparative data to affect policy, the EU’s public health policies are increasingly important, visible, expensive and effective. They also provide an invaluable case study for...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
7. Health Care and Immigration

   Understanding the Connections

   Edited by Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gender-based Violence and Public Health

   International perspectives on budgets and policies

   Edited by Keerty Nakray

   Series: Routledge Studies in Public Health

   Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific

   Histories of Responses to Non-Communicable and Communicable Diseases

   Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Kerrie L. MacPherson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Chronic diseases—cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes—are not only the principal cause of world-wide mortality but also are now responsible for a striking increase in the percentage of sickness in developing countries still grappling with the acute problems of...

   Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Fat

    By Deborah Lupton

    Series: Shortcuts

    In contemporary western societies the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it. Despite the fact that in many western countries fat bodies outnumber those that are thin, fat people are still socially marginalized and...

    Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge