Health and wellbeing
The health inequalities in our society, especially when taken internationally, are stark and have been revealed and made worse by COVID-19. Health literacy around the world is irregular, particularly in communities that struggle to even get basic access to healthcare, and the long-term links between poverty and health are becoming more evident.
Focussing on UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, our publishing in this area examines the issues and looks towards providing solutions. Our COVID-19 Collection, for example, showcases our content on the pandemic, in order to encourage broader perspectives and collaborations across global and disciplinary boundaries.
Bristol University Press and Policy Press are signed up to the UN SDG Publishers Compact. In Health and wellbeing, we aim to address the following goal:
Personalisation
One of Britain's foremost social work academics, Peter Beresford, challenges the personalisation agenda and its consequences on service users.
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The Kindness Fix
How and Why We Must Build a More Compassionate Society
The help we give to others can be more effective and more just if we cultivate greater levels of compassion. Jason Wood reviews the research and talks to experts from across the world to make the moving case for greater compassion in public life.
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Austerity Bites 10 Years On
A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK
With new commentary, Austerity Bites 10 Years On assesses on the true scale of the damage austerity policies have inflicted on the country’s most vulnerable groups, public institutions and on the wider society, reflecting on where we have been, where we are now and what needs to happen next to undo the damage and avoid the same mistakes again.
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The Happiness Problem
Expecting Better in an Uncertain World
The Happiness Problem shows that the illusion of control over our lives is too simplistic and can even be harmful. Sam Wren-Lewis offers an alternative: he proposes that we can connect with, and gain a deeper understanding of, the personal and social challenges that define our time.
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Health Divides
Where You Live Can Kill You
Clare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.
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Partnership Working in Health and Social Care
What is Integrated Care and How Can We Deliver It?
The second edition of this bestselling book provides a concise 'warts and all' introduction to partnership and integration, summarising updated references to current policy and research, setting out useful frameworks and approaches, and helping policy makers and practitioners to work more effectively together.
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Interprofessional Education and Training
A thorough introduction to IPE in health and social care for students. This second edition includes updates to research and policy contexts and provides an essential set of IPE ‘do’s and don’ts’.
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Innovation in Social Care
New Approaches for Young People Affected by Extra-Familial Risks and Harms
Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, this book asks how services can be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation. The authors offer insights into the core conditions necessary for socially just and practice-congruent social care innovation that responds to the distinctive, contemporary safeguarding concerns facing young people.
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The Concept and Measurement of Violence Against Women and Men
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The book is a guide to how the measurement of violence can be best achieved. It shows how to make femicide, rape, domestic violence, and FGM visible in official statistics and offers practical guidance on definitions, indicators and coordination mechanisms.
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Public Health and International Economic Law
Preventing Non-communicable Diseases and Promoting Better Health for All
This book tackles crucial and timely questions regarding the impact of international trade and investment law on state regulatory autonomy in crafting and executing measures to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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Psychology at the Heart of Social Change
Developing a Progressive Vision for Society
This book shows why we need, and can create, a progressive politics that is profoundly informed by insights from the psychotherapeutic and psychological domain, moving us from a politics of blame to a politics of understanding.
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The Short Guide to Mental Health
A concise introduction to important concepts and debates in the field of mental health, Deirdre Heenan and Jennifer Betts bring together different stakeholders’ perspectives to explore contemporary issues around the prevalence, cost and determinants of mental illness, and responding attitudes and services, for a comprehensive and accessible primer.
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Related journals
Evidence & Policy
To what extent does evidence support decision making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review [Open Access]
Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention [Open Access]
Risk, uncertainty and medical practice: changes in the medical professions following disaster [Open Access]
Reconstructing the mixed mechanisms of health: the role of bio- and sociomarkers
Early-life circumstances and the risk of function-limiting long-term conditions in later life [Open Access]
International Journal of Care and Caring
Care goes viral: care theory and research confront the global COVID-19 pandemic
Associations between care network types and psychological well-being among Dutch older adults
Epistemic injustice, face-to-face encounters and caring institutions
Philosophical dialogue in palliative care and hospice work
Improving the identification of cancer patients’ caring relationships
Supporting people with young-onset dementia and their family carers better