ISBN:
9780702083150
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-09-2024
Page Count:
224
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$27.99
Sociological Approaches to Health, Healthcare and Nursing, E-Book, 1st Edition
by Hannah Cooke, BSc, MSc (Econ), MSc (Nurs), PhD, RGN, NDN, RNT
Paperback
ISBN:
9780702083150
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-09-2024
Page Count:
224
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$27.99
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- Aligned to the requirements of the updated NMC Standards of Proficiency for Nurses
- Presents a contemporary focus that takes into account changes in public health, healthcare services and health work post-pandemic
- Case studies illustrate key issues and bring theory to life
- Focuses on the wider determinants of health and inequalities in health and healthcare
- Provides an understanding of the patient experience and its social and cultural context in order to support patient-centred care
- Addresses the political and policy context of healthcare, including contemporary changes in the organisation of health services, changes in health work and changes in nursing work
- Offers regular ‘reflection points’ to encourage critical thinking
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PART 1: Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health
1. Sociology of Health and Illness and the Social Determinants of Health
2. Social Class and Inequalities of Health
3. Gender Inequalities in Health
4. Ethnicity, ‘Race’ and Inequalities of Health
PART 2: Health and Illness as Social and Cultural Experiences
5. Culture, Identity and the Body
6. Concepts of Health and Illness and the Illness Experience
7. Living With Long-Term Illness and Disability
PART 3: The Social and Political Organisation of Healthcare
8. Healthcare Policy and Organisational Change
9. Professionalism, Managerialism and Nursing Work
10. Healthcare Institutions and Places of Care
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