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Cover Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia
New Interventions
Robert J. Brent
This ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also, for the first time, a Cost-Benefit Analysis of those interventions to establish whether the benefits outweigh the costs. Focussing on new interventions such as years of education, medicare eligibility, hearing aids and vision correction, Robert Brent also takes an innovative look at the need to reduce elder abuse and initiate an international convention for human rights.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
08 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839105760
Collections:
Economics 2022
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A Modern Guide to Wellbeing Research
Editors:
Beverley A. Searle
,
Jessica Pykett
, and
Maria J. Alfaro-Simmonds
This insightful Modern Guide explores heterodox approaches to modern wellbeing research, with a specific focus on how wellbeing is understood and practised, exploring policies and actions which are taken to shape wellbeing. It evaluates contemporary trends in wellbeing research, including the sometimes competing definitions, methods and approaches offered by different disciplinary perspectives.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900163
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Geography, Planning and Tourism 2021
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Pandemic Economics
Peter A.G. van Bergeijk
Discussing the Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDs, SARS and Ebola against the background of Covid-19, Pandemic Economics demonstrates how scientists consistently warned the world about pandemics, and how, despite this, the possibility of global lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The book prepares for the next pandemic, that unquestionably will arrive, the impact of which is predicted to potentially exceed that of the current Covid-19 wreckage.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
12 Mar 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379978
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Economics 2021
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Productivity and the Pandemic
Challenges and Insights from Covid-19
Editors:
Philip McCann
and
Tim Vorley
This forward-thinking book examines the potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on productivity. Productivity and the Pandemic features 21 chapters authored by 46 experts, examining different aspects of how the pandemic is likely to impact on the economy, society and governance in the medium- and long-term. Drawing on a range of empirical evidence, analytical arguments and new conceptual insights, the book challenges our thinking on many dimensions. With a keen focus on place, firms, production factors and institutions, the chapters highlight how the pre-existing challenges to productivity have been variously exacerbated and mitigated by the pandemic and points out ways forward for appropriate policy thinking in response to the crisis.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
19 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374607
Collections:
Economics 2021
Cover A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness
A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness
Editors:
Luigino Bruni
,
Alessandra Smerilli
, and
Dalila De Rosa
Exploring the modern approach to the economics of happiness, which came about with the Easterlin Paradox, this book analyses and assesses the idea that as a country gets richer the happiness of its citizens remains the same. The book moves through three distinct pillars of study in the field: first analysing the historical and philosophical foundations of the debate; then the methodological and measurements issues and their political implications; and finally empirical applications and discussion about what determines a happy life.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
15 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978767
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Economics 2021
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Ending Childhood Obesity
A Challenge at the Crossroads of International Economic and Human Rights Law
Editors:
Amandine Garde
,
Joshua Curtis
, and
Olivier De Schutter
Childhood obesity is one of the most pressing global public health challenges of the 21st century. In response, States need to employ a multisectoral approach including labelling rules, food marketing restrictions and fiscal policies. However, these legal measures interact in a complex fashion with international economic and human rights law raising a range of legal questions. This timely book edited by Garde, Curtis and De Schutter explores these questions offering insightful perspectives. Of fundamental interest to legal professionals and academics, Ending Childhood Obesity also makes the legal complexities accessible to a broad range of public health and other policy actors addressing obesity and related non-communicable diseases.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
10 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788114028
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Law 2020
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A Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing
Neil Thin
This Research Agenda for Social Wellbeing introduces scholars and planners to the importance of a ‘wellbeing lens’ for the study and promotion of social flourishing. It demonstrates the importance of wellbeing as a public good, not just a property of individuals.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
06 Nov 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976466
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Human Rights and Tobacco Control
Editors:
Marie E. Gispen
and
Brigit Toebes
Large-scale adverse health and developmental outcomes related to tobacco affect millions of people across the world, raising serious questions from a human rights perspective. In response to this crisis, this timely book provides a comprehensive analysis of the promotion and enforcement of human rights protection in tobacco control law and policy at international, regional, and domestic levels. This book was realised with funding from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF).
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
14 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788974820
Collections:
Law 2020
Cover Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research
Handbook of Theory and Methods in Applied Health Research
Questions, Methods and Choices
Editors:
Catherine Walshe
and
Sarah Brearley
This Handbook expertly instructs the reader on how to conduct applied health research across a number of disciplines. Particularly aimed at postgraduate health researchers and students of applied health research, it presents and explains a wide range of research designs and other contemporary issues in applied health research.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
31 Jul 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785363214
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Business 2020
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A Research Agenda for Migration and Health
Editors:
K. Bruce Newbold
and
Kathi Wilson
Evidenced by Europe’s refugee crisis and the movement of undocumented workers into the US, international migration has emerged as one of the most pressing issues faced by national and regional governments. The health impacts of migration can be significant and multifaceted, with access to health care often denied or limited, with immigrants experiencing declining health. The health of more vulnerable groups, including women and the disabled, is further compromised. A Research Agenda for Migration and Health provides insight into key research directions and scholarship, with topics including food security, disability, cultural safety, and health care access.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
01 Nov 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438362
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Social and Political Science 2019