Introducing Health and Social Care
A Textbook
Leah Burch editor Natalija Atas editor Jo Hogan editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:16th Dec '26
£43.99
This title is due to be published on 16th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Introducing Health and Social Care provides a comprehensive overview of the Health and Social Care sector in the United Kingdom, with a discussion of key contemporary developments and challenges.
Health and Social Care, while being in a state of turbulence, continues to offer exciting and worthwhile opportunities to work in human services that are vital for our society. This volume aims to provide a future workforce with a deep understanding of how people's needs arise, and the tools required to provide and lead essential services. Designed to enable students to develop creative and alternative ways of thinking, this textbook offers a unique perspective relating to distinctive fields of Health and Wellbeing and Social Care, before analysing the increasingly integrated nature of working in these sectors. All chapters are presented with essential pedagogical features for effective study, including listed objectives, boxed summaries, case studies, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Informed by theoretical and practical insights from a team of contributors with extensive experience both working in, and educating about, sectors relating to Health and Social Care, this book will be essential reading for students studying at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
"A clear, accessible and very wide-ranging introduction to how social, policy and political environments shape our opportunities, and chances in health and wellbeing. Focusing on the UK, this carefully collated collection of chapters introduces students to contemporary issues and ideas across health and social care studies."
Danny Dorling, 1971 Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, UK
"Introducing Health and Social Care is a timely, compelling textbook that challenges individualistic narratives and places social justice firmly at the core of human services. Thoughtfully structured and critical, this comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for empowering students to understand structural inequalities and drive meaningful change in practice."
Kate E Pickett, Professor for the Public Understanding of Social Science, University of York, UK
"This important book guides students and general readers through the crisis in health and social care: the needs of people with disabilities, young people in looked after settings, an aging population, and declining 'healthy life expectancy' among the poorest. Underpinning these is a strong focus on 'structural inequalities' - class disadvantage and the failure of state institutions to confront the 'problem of the rich'."
Michael Lavalette, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Liverpool Hope University, UK
"A comprehensive, interesting and critically engaged text which will provide students with a rich understanding of the health and social care sector and help equip them with a questioning attitude and strong commitment to addressing enduring inequalities in this area."
Professor Sara Ryan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
ISBN: 9781032931661
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230 pages