The new edition of this leading text is an essential guide to promoting healthy behaviour in a multi-cultural society, providing a holistic stance that integrates both physical and mental health and wellbeing.

This popular and accessible text continues to cover the basic principles of the sociology of health and illness in an eminently readable way. This book investigates the relevance of sociology and considers a new direction one that places sociology in the context of healthcare settings, making the topic more realistic.

Health Promotion: The Basics introduces the fundamental theories and key concepts within this important area of health and social care, and translates these into practice. The chapters are structured around the WHO’s Ottawa Charter (1986) and looks at health promotion on an individual and a societal level.

This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of the key concepts and practical skills required to work in the field of health education and promotion. This is an essential text for students taking a range of courses in health promotion, education and planning, as well as those preparing for the CHES examination.

Now in its fourth edition, Health Psychology takes a truly interdisciplinary approach to studying health psychology, and offers a comprehensive overview of the subareas within this fascinating subject

The monograph presents a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on European banking, both at a macro and a micro level. It analyses the impact of the pandemic on bank stability, performance and credit policies, as well as their strategic adjustments to the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This autobiography from Sir Denis Pereira Gray offers an insight into the life and career of an influential GP, from what led him to study medicine, learning his craft in the 1960s, through years of clinical practice and research to senior leadership roles within and outside the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Brazil after Bolsonaro captures and presents the voices of a wide range of stakeholders, including academics and journalists in Brazil and abroad, to produce the first systematic engagement with Lula’s upcoming presidency.

This guide introduces a humanistic, solution-focused coaching model, uses lived experience to demonstrate how it can profoundly change our health care experiences and system, and supports readers in developing their own coaching skills.

Suitable for clinicians and students alike in the eating disorder field, this guide on how to successfully begin and run your own group is a necessary resource.