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Health Studies
Featured titles in Health Studies
- Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to explore the factors and issues related to the health of older adults. The book is organized around the five action areas... more
Promoting the Health of Older Adults
The Canadian Experience
Irving Rootman, Peggy Edwards, Mélanie Levasseur, Frances Grunberg
- The revised third edition of the formerly titled Substance Use and Abuse retains its comprehensive, holistic examination of the field of substance use and misuse from a Canadian perspective. Now organized into seven sections, the 30 chapters examine the nature of addiction; ex... more
- Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion offers a comprehensive selection of chapters written by academic researchers as well as direct practitioners and mental health consumer-survivors to examine the intersection of poverty, mental health, and social exclusion. With the ... more
Poverty, Mental Health, and Social Inclusion
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik
- Now in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring ... more
- May 2016
- 9781551308975
- $91.95 Print
- $86.95 Digital
- November 2015
- 9781551307381
- $89.95 Print
- $84.95 Digital
Community and Public Health Nursing, Second Edition
Learning to Make a Difference through Teamwork
Elizabeth Diem, Alwyn Moyer
- November 2015
- 9780889615700
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
Women's Health, Second Edition
Intersections of Policy, Research, and Practice
Pat Armstrong, Ann Pederson
- November 2014
- 9780889615199
- $69.95 Print
- $64.95 Digital
- April 2014
- 9781551305592
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
- August 2013
- 9781551305400
- $61.95 Print
- $56.95 Digital
- March 2013
- 9781551305349
- $71.95 Print
- $66.95 Digital
Mad Matters
A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies
Brenda A. LeFrançois, Robert Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume
- March 2013
- 9780889614864
- $81.95 Print
- $76.95 Digital
Women and HIV Prevention in Canada
Implications for Research, Policy, and Practice
Jacqueline Gahagan
- November 2012
- 9781551304120
- $76.95 Print
- $71.95 Digital
- February 2012
- 9780889614857
- $48.95 Print
- $43.95 Digital
Thinking Women and Health Care Reform in Canada
Pat Armstrong, Barbara Clow, Karen Grant, Margaret Haworth-Brockman, Beth Jackson, Ann Pederson, Morgan Seeley
- June 2011
- 9781551303901
- $71.95 Print
Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Health
Finding Truths — Creating Change
Cheryl Forchuk, Rick Csiernik, Elsabeth Jensen
- April 2010
- 9780889614710
- $67.95 Print
- $62.95 Digital
- February 2010
- 9781551303673
- $61.95 Print
- July 2009
- 9780889614789
- $54.95 Print
- April 2009
- 9781551303550
- $62.95 Print
- $57.95 Digital
Anti-Racist Health Care Practice
Elizabeth McGibbon, Josephine Etowa
- March 2008
- 9780889614642
- $56.95 Print
- $51.95 Digital
Dissonant Disabilities
Women with Chronic Illnesses Explore Their Lives
Diane Driedger, Michelle Owen
- August 2005
- 9781551302782
- $62.95 Print
- $57.95 Digital
Social Work in Health and Mental Health
Issues, Developments and Actions
Tuula Heinonen, Anna Metteri
- August 2005
- 9781551302768
- $49.95 Print