Sage Library of Health and Social Welfare Series – serie

This collection of key source materials documents the history of the field, identifies important turning points in research and practice, and indicates key challenges for the future. It also addresses the urgent need for perspectives from the global South to complement the more familiar ones of official documents and researchers in high income countries.Volume One: Historical PerspectivesVolume Two: Scientific AdvancesVolume Three: Scientific ConsolidationVolume Four: Global Health Ethics, Public Policy and Challenges for the Future

Social work research has gathered a greater transparency and clarity of identity in North American and parts of Europe. Furthermore, the rapid emergence of social work research in other European countries, China, India, Japan and elsewhere in Asia and Pacific Rim countries, and gradually in South America, has created a need for a collection that can contribute to both shaping and making accessible key and sometimes hard-to-access sources.  This four-volume collection answers this need, bringing together key literature in a single resource and structuring it into thematic volumes to enable clear understanding of the different aspects involved in the research.  Volume One: Historical Trajectories, Purposes and Key ConceptsVolume Two: Key Decisions about Research StrategyVolume Three: The Practice of Social Work ResearchVolume Four: The Contexts of Social Work Research

Public Health is a vast academic field covering a wide spectrum of disciplines from specific public health courses for those specialising in public health careers / research, to qualifying and post-qualifying training for nurses, doctors and other health professionals.Taking a thematic approach, this four volume collection presents the essential articles on: Theories and policies in public healthEpidemiologyEnvironmental public healthEcological and systems approachesInternational contextsThe Major Work takes a comparative approach, looking both historically and internationally at this very important subject area.