This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result.

Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. It addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and social security, generational accounting, wealth inequality and regional perspectives.

This book explores the close connections between populism and conspiracy theory. It contributes to filling the gap in the research by providing in-depth analyses of specific configurations of populism and conspiracy theory, and nuanced considerations of more theoretical issues

This book explores how people encounter, understand, live with and respond to health risks associated with social economic and political inequality.

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 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 book is an easy-to-read self-help guide for people facing cancer diagnosis and treatment. Following an effective Q&A format and based on a unique Wellbeing Essentials framework, it offers a valuable ‘dip in and out’ approach with signposting to evidence-based guidance on major challenges they may face.

Introduction to Multicultural Counseling for Helping Professionals, 4th ed, is the essential introductory text for studying multicultural counseling. Providing a broad survey of counseling concepts and techniques for different marginalized ethnic and cultural groups, it is at once practical and easily understood.

With growing economic inequality and threats to the sustainability of human societies, Koh argues that cooperatives can play an important role in promoting decent work and reducing economic inequality in the 21st century, and thus urges policy makers to reignite policy discussions on cooperatives.

A theoretically informed practical guide to using crisis theory to bring about positive change in empowering ways.