Tackling causes and consequences of health inequalities: a practical guide

By:

Matheson, James

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Language: English Publication details: London CRC PressISBN:

9781138499867

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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:robotoregular;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Contents Foreword by Michael Marmot Introduction Part One: Setting the Scene An Insight from the Frontline An Introduction to Health Inequalities A Multi-level Approach to Treating Social Risks to Health for Health Providers A Tale of Two Cities - Hull and York. Part Two: Knowledge and Skills Our Patients and the Benefit System Fuel Poverty and Cold-Related Ill Health Child Safeguarding and Social Care Domestic Violence and Abuse Substance Use: Our Patients, Drugs and Alcohol Addressing Smoking Cessation in Areas of Deprivation Safer Prescribing: The Threat and Challenge of Caring for People with Chronic Pain Persistent Physical Symptoms Social Prescribing: Connecting People for Health and Wellbeing Why do People not Engage with Healthcare? Managing Difficult Conversations Motivational Interviewing Person-Centred Care Trauma-Informed Care Building Resilience Through Self-Care Medical Advocacy: The Duty of Physicians as Advocates Part Three: Populations and Groups Child Health Tackling Health Inequalities in Adolescence Understanding and Responding to Complexity in Young People Addressing the Health and Wellbeing of Young Carers Women's Health and Health Inequality Men's Health Ageing Unequally Improving health and healthcare experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities? Engaging with the Health Issues of Gypsies and Travellers The Health and Wellbeing of Asylum Seekers and New Refugees Homeless Healthcare Veterans' Health Working with People in Contact with the Criminal Justice System and in Secure Environments Mental Health and Primary Care Management of Complex Psychiatric Conditions Part Four: Successful Models of Learning and Practice A GP Curriculum for Health Equity Examples of Innovative Service Models across the UK Widening Participation in Medical Education

Summary: <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:robotoregular;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Addressing health inequalities is a key focus for health and social care organizations. This book explores how best frontline health workers in areas of deprivation can address these problems. Aimed at doctors and their wider multidisciplinary teams, this book provides key knowledge and practical advice on how to address the causes and consequences of health inequalities to achieve better outcomes for patients. Considering the psychological, financial and social aspects of well-being as well as health concerns, this book offers a concise but comprehensive overview of the key issues in health inequalities and, most importantly, how practically to address them. Key Features Comprehensively covers the breadth of subjects identified by RCGP's work to formulate a curriculum for health inequalities The first book to address the urgent area of causes and consequences of health inequalities in clinical practice. Chapters are authored by expert practitioners with proven experience in each aspect of health care. Applied, practical focus, demonstrating approaches that will work and can be applied in 'every' situation of inequality. Provides evidence of how community based primary care can make a change

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Hillingdon Hospitals Library Services (Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation) Shelves	W68 MAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		301122191

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345p

<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:robotoregular;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Addressing health inequalities is a key focus for health and social care organizations. This book explores how best frontline health workers in areas of deprivation can address these problems. Aimed at doctors and their wider multidisciplinary teams, this book provides key knowledge and practical advice on how to address the causes and consequences of health inequalities to achieve better outcomes for patients. Considering the psychological, financial and social aspects of well-being as well as health concerns, this book offers a concise but comprehensive overview of the key issues in health inequalities and, most importantly, how practically to address them. Key Features Comprehensively covers the breadth of subjects identified by RCGP's work to formulate a curriculum for health inequalities The first book to address the urgent area of causes and consequences of health inequalities in clinical practice. Chapters are authored by expert practitioners with proven experience in each aspect of health care. Applied, practical focus, demonstrating approaches that will work and can be applied in 'every' situation of inequality. Provides evidence of how community based primary care can make a change

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