In an age when electronic health records (EHRs) are an increasingly important source of data, this essential textbook provides both practical and theoretical guidance to researchers conducting epidemiological or clinical analysis through EHRs.

A practical guide for the nursing care of neonates within hospital and home settings for the first year of life.

Exploring how practitioners make use of play’s developmental benefits and therapeutic healing properties to aid the child’s health care journey, this reflective book expands and enhances the knowledge base underlying the practice of play in hospitals.

This important book introduces the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to health promotion, detailing how policy making at all levels can foster the right conditions for better public health, but also examining the inherent challenges to such an overarching approach.

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities.

This third edition of a popular text introduces healthcare students and professionals to an insider’s view on the religion’s historical development, key beliefs and practices, including ideas of health, sickness, death, and dying. The chapters include case studies, advice on what to do and what to avoid when caring for patients.

This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women’s health and healthcare across the world, this book will find readers among students in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender Studies, Sociology and beyond.

This eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experiencing mental health difficulties, particularly those suffering with psychosis.

This book provides group therapists and counselors with the necessary knowledge and help to develop their skills in effectively conducting online groups.