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Health Policy; in sickness and in health

WebAbstract. The focus in this chapter is on characterizing the nature of recent health policy initiatives and exploring the interplay of powerful structural interest groups which …

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Talcott Parsons and the Theory of the Sick Role

WebThe Rights and Obligations of the Sick Role According to Parsons model, the sick person can be expected to be afforded two rights. These rights however were conditional on the …

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Nursing Perspectives and Contribution to Primary Health Care

Web4. Introduction. Since the early years of the Primary Health Care (PHC) and Health for All (HFA) movement, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has provided global …

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A survey of health and lifestyles in Kent and Medway

WebInitial results from a survey of 16,000 people in Kent and Medway carried out in the summer of 2001, giving information about general health, coronary heart disease, cancer, …

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Talcott Parsons and the Theory of the ‘Sick Role’

WebThe first major theory within sociology that analysed the role of health and illness in social life was devised by the functionalist theorist Talcott Parsons (1951) in his book ‘The …

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Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories

WebVirus mitigation behavior has been and still is a powerful means to fight the COVID-19 pandemic irrespective of the availability of pharmaceutical means (e.g., vaccines). We …

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Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2017

WebThis is the latest updated volume in a well-established series bringing together information from a variety of sources to estimate national unit costs for a wide range of health and …

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Equity of access to NHS cancer services for

WebExecutive Summary 1. The NHS Cancer Plan draws attention to the inequity of access to cancer services for members of minority ethnic groups, according importance to such …

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Mapping and Understanding Exclusion: Institutional, coercive and

WebThis report entitled “Mapping and Understanding Exclusion- Institutional, coercive and community-based services and practices across Europe’’ is a new and expanded edition …

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Unit Costs of Health and Social Care 2019

WebRequest a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader: XML Word Processing Document (DOCX) (This book has been analysed for accessibility and has …

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Application of Deep Neural Network in Healthcare data

WebBiomedical data analysis has been playing an important role in healthcare provision services. For decades, medical practitioners and researchers have been extracting and …

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Kent Academic Repository

WebKent Academic Repository. Lopreite, M. and Zhu, Z. (2020) The effects of ageing population on health expenditure and economic growth in China: A Bayesian-VAR approach. Social …

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Diaspora and Health

WebThe service industry is the largest employment sector in Athens providing over 40 per cent of its jobs. Other industries in Athens include poultry processing, construc-tion, printing, …

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Health of people who travel to work: the effect of travel time and …

WebThis is the first study of the health of people travelling to work. The paper describes a study from the 2001 Kent & Medway Health and Lifestyle Survey. It focusses on the health of …

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Life after stroke: Reconstructing everyday life

WebAbstract. Stroke can have a major impact on a person’s life. For example a stroke may leave an individual with residual disabilities such as difficulty with walking or speech that …

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Artificial Intelligence in Prognostics and Health Management of

WebPrognostics and health management (PHM) has become a crucial aspect of the management of engineering systems and structures, where sensor hardware and …

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Strengths-Based Approaches in Social Work and Social Care: …

WebOne of the standout features of a strengths- or asset- based approach is its orientation to positive health and wellbeing. This stems from two fundamental positions. The first is its …

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Kent Academic Repository

WebCommunity water fluoridation has been an accepted public dental health intervention since its introduction in the USA in the 1950s.1 In England some 10% of the population …

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The Control of Plague in Venice and Northern Italy 1348-1600

WebThe classical theory that plague was caused by breathing in corrupt air was challenged by the Black Death, which was seen to be contagious. Civic authorities responded more …

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