Tackling Obesity And Overweight Matters In Health And Social Care

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This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service users’ overweight and obesity, and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19. Obesity and associated health problems represent a growing health burden around the world, with rates throughout Europe increasing sharply over the last forty years, second only to the United States and closely followed by many nations in Asia. The book will be an invaluable manual for general practice, primary care and community clinicians, practice and community nurses and dietitians and a go-to reference for health professionals across all medical specialties and related support services, as well as medical education, public health and social care worker professionals.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Ruth Chambers
Publisher : CRC Press
Release : 2022-07-25
File : 159 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000607093


Fat Matters

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In a consumerist society obsessed with body image and thinness, obesity levels have reached an all-time high. This multi-faceted book written by a range of experts, explores the social, cultural, clinical and psychological factors that lie behind the OCyObesity EpidemicOCO. It is required reading for the many healthcare professionals dealing with the effects of obesity and for anyone who wants to know more about the causes of weight gain and the best ways of dealing with it.Fat Matters covers a range of issues from sociology through medicine to technology. This is not a book for the highly specialised expert. Rather it is a book that shows the diversity of approaches to the phenomenon of obesity, tailored to the reader who wants to be up-to-date and well-informed on a subject that is possibly as frequently discussed and as misunderstood as the weather."

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Genre : Body image
Author : Gina Tsichlia
Publisher : M&K Update Ltd
Release : 2010
File : 146 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781907830396


Today S Social Issues

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Covering everything from abortion to gun control to immigration, this book explains policies and positions of today's Democratic and Republican parties, giving readers a complete understanding of modern-day American politics and the 2016 presidential race. This book cuts through rhetorical platitudes and partisan distortions to provide a balanced and up-to-date resource for understanding policy debates on social issues in statehouses around the country as well as in Washington, DC. It provides broad coverage of the parties and the forces that affect each party's positions, examining every major social policy and taking into account historical differences between Democrats and Republicans in an evenhanded manner, with emphasis on the key ideologies that set the two parties apart during the 2008–2014 midterms. Author Timothy Kneeland presents an in-depth study of the diversity of political opinion on today's most pressing social issues, digging deeper than the typical black-or-white presentation of these debates in the media. Readers will gain a detailed understanding of how the parties agree, disagree, and find compromise on the broad range of problems and issues facing American society in the 21st century.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Timothy W. Kneeland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release : 2016-07-01
File : 398 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781610698368


Obesity And Overweight Matters In Primary Care

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Contents: The scale of the problem - overweight and obesity; Clinical governance and the management of overweight and obesity; Managing child overweight and obesity; Managing adult overweight and obesity in primary care; Different dietary approaches; Alternative approaches: behavioral therapy, physical activity and other techniques; Drug therapy for obesity; Surgical treatments of obesity; Calculating the costs of overweight and obesity; Draw up and apply your personal development plan focusing on motivation and lifestyle change management; Worked example of a personal development plan: motivation and lifestyle change management; Template for a personal development plan; Draw up and apply your personal development plan focusing on obesity; Worked example of a practice learning plan: management of overweight and obesity; Template for a practice personal and professional development plan; Sources of help: organisations, websites; National Obesity Forum; Guidelines for the management of adult obesity and overweight in primary care.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Ruth Chambers
Publisher : Radcliffe Publishing
Release : 2002
File : 204 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1857755146


Rethinking Social Issues In Education For The 21st Century

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This book revisits key social issues and controversies in education. There are many social issues currently on political and governmental agendas, both in the UK and other countries – from safeguarding, childhood obesity, bullying and mental health, through to widening participation. Some of these issues relate to children and young people and are of concern to those working and researching in education, while others relate to Higher Education. The boundaries between the academic disciplines of politics, sociology, economics, psychology and education are porous. The contributions here illustrate how common interests and collaboration can assist in our understanding of complex social issues, the evaluation of current governmental responses, and the promotion of ideas about the way forward into the 21st century.

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Genre : Education
Author : Sylvia Horton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release : 2016-12-14
File : 268 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781443855600


Fundamentals Of Midwifery

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Fundamentals of Midwifery: A Textbook for Students makesthe subject of midwifery accessible, informative and motivating,ensuring that it is an essential text for the aspiring midwife! This resource brings together knowledge from a collection ofclinical experts and experienced academics to support your learningand prepare you for the challenges faced in contemporary midwiferyhealthcare. It presents you with the ‘must-have’information that you need concerning both the theoretical andpractical aspects of what it means to be a midwife. With extensivefull colour illustrations throughout, as well as activities andscenarios, this user-friendly textbook will support you throughoutyour entire education programme. Fundamentals of Midwiferyis essential reading for all pre-registration student midwives, aswell as newly qualified midwives. KEY FEATURES: • Broad and comprehensive in scope, with chapters on: teamworking; antenatal care, intrapartum and postnatal care; infantfeeding; public health and health promotion; perinatal mentalhealth; complementary therapies; pharmacology and medicinesmanagement; and emergencies. • Interactive and student-friendly in approach, withactivities throughout. • Brings together professional and clinical topics in oneuser-friendly book. • Ties in with the latest NMC Standards forpre-registration midwifery education. • Supported by an online resource centre featuringinteractive multiple-choice questions, additional scenarios andactivities, and links to further reading.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Louise Lewis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2014-12-09
File : 448 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781118528150


The Impact Of New Health Imperatives On Educational Policy And Schooling

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Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people’s diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at ‘risk’ in relation to these health concerns. Such concerns are driving what might be described as new ‘health imperatives’ which prescribe the choices young people should make around lifestyle: physical activity, body regulation, dietary habits, and sedentary behaviour. These health imperatives are a powerful force driving major policy initiatives on health and education in a number of countries in the Western world. Schools in particular have been targeted for the implementation of a plethora of initiatives designed to help children and young people lose weight, become more active and change their eating patterns inside and outside school. Addressing these issues requires an innovative theoretical approach. Neither the fields of ‘eating disorders’ nor ‘obesity research’ has addressed these issues from a sociological and pedagogical perspective. The contributors to this edited collection draw on a range of social theories, including Michel Foucault and Basil Bernstein to interpret the data collected across three countries (Australia and New Zealand, United Kingdom) and from a range of primary and secondary schools. Each chapter addresses various aspects of the relationship between health imperatives as constituted in government policies, school programs and practices, their recontextualised in school practices and the impact of this on the subjectivities of children and teachers. This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.

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Genre : Education
Author : Jan Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-02-05
File : 149 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317623441


Clay S Handbook Of Environmental Health

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Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health, since its first publication in 1933, has provided a definitive guide for the environmental health practitioner, or reference for the consultant or student. This 21th edition continues as a first point of reference, reviewing the core principles, techniques and competencies, and then outlining the specialist subjects. It has been refocused on the current curriculum of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Environmental Health but should also readily suit the generalist or specialist working outside the UK.

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Genre : Science
Author : Stephen Battersby
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2016-07-01
File : 1440 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317382904


Intellectual Disability In Health And Social Care

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Many practitioners within health and social care come into contact with people with intellectual disabilities and want to work in ways that are beneficial to them by making reasonable adjustments in order to meet clients’ needs and expectations. Yet the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities continues to be a neglected area, where unnecessary suffering and premature deaths continue to prevail. This text provides a comprehensive insight into intellectual disability healthcare. It is aimed at those who are training in the field of intellectual disability nursing and also untrained practitioners who work in both health and social care settings. Divided into five sections, it explores how a wide range of biological, health, psychological and social barriers impact upon people with learning disability, and includes: Six guiding principles used to adjust, plan and develop meaningful and accessible health and social services Assessment, screening and diagnosis of intellectual disability across the life course Addressing lifelong health needs Psychological and psychotherapeutic issues, including sexuality, behavioural and mental health needs, bereavement, and ethical concerns. The changing professional roles and models of meeting the needs of people with intellectual and learning disabilities. Intellectual Disability in Health and Social Care provides a wide-ranging overview of what learning disability professionals’ roles are and provides insight into what health and social care practitioners might do to assist someone with intellectual disabilities when specific needs arise.

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Genre : Medical
Author : Stacey Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2014-09-16
File : 598 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317818939


Contemporary Issues In Marketing

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As the landscape of marketing knowledge changes, contemporary buyers, be it individuals or organisations are now more informed, more demanding and crave value co-creation with marketers. This, coupled with technological and socio-cultural changes, provides robust evidence that the old perspectives, assumptions, and practices of marketing are no longer satisfactory. Contemporary Issues in Marketing is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and cutting edge resource that presents a coherent understanding of topical issues in marketing. Bringing together theory and practitioners’ perspectives, it firmly addresses the prevailing challenges in the marketing world. Using vignettes on topics such as technology, ethics and practitioner viewpoints, this book explores the paradigm shift in marketing and developments in thoughts throughout the discipline.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Ayantunji Gbadamosi
Publisher : SAGE
Release : 2019-09-02
File : 594 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781526485403