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Public health is high on government agendas thanks to the increasing burden lifestyle related illness places on healthcare providers. This book answers the need for a comprehensive text covering the core knowledge, competencies and skills taught to the growing public health workforce.

Authoritative collection from the Open University team.

Public health is high on government agendas thanks to the increasing burden lifestyle related illness places on healthcare providers. This book answers the need for a comprehensive text covering the core knowledge, competencies and skills taught to the growing public health workforce.

Encourages early years practitioners to take a critical stance in relation to a wide range of themes and issues

Authoritative collection from the Open University team.

'Excellent resource that should be essential reading for all those considering working with young people whatever their background or discipline' - Miss Isabelle King, WFD, national Council of Voluntary Youth Services

'Excellent resource that should be essential reading for all those considering working with young people whatever their background or discipline' - Miss Isabelle King, WFD, national Council of Voluntary Youth Services

This book enables students to develop a framework for analysing, evaluating and developing teaching and assessment practice to enhance learning

This book enables students to develop a framework for analysing, evaluating and developing teaching and assessment practice to enhance learning

This book enables students to develop a framework for analysing, evaluating and developing teaching and assessment practice to enhance learning

The latest edition of the bestselling reader Understanding Health and Social Care combines classic works with newly commissioned material, offering readers unparalleled coverage of the key issues in health and social care. The breadth of material encompasses voices of service users, professional and lay carers, as well as academics and researchers.

Critical practice is at the core of various activities undertaken with service users, carers and their communities. This title look at key areas of practice and the challenges professionals face in training and in their working lives. It focuses on the skills and values fundamental to the caring role.

Offers a selection of writing from a field of work. This book brings together key readings and commissioned material to present a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on leading and managing work with young people. It equips students with the knowledge, skills, values and principles required for qualification as a worker in the field.

A critical guide to conducting investigations under time- and resource-pressured conditions, equipping readers with the key skills and approaches for research designed to influence or inform development policies. It includes material and advice on critical use of the web as a resource and research tool.

Addresses the problems involved in educational research and the issues surrounding its contribution to policy making and practice. This work examines the diverse approaches within qualitative research and considers what role research should play and examine the case for randomized controlled trials and for action research.

Offers analysis of the key policy and practice issues involved in promoting public health - from local and community levels, to international settings. This book equips readers with an understanding of the policy process. It discusses the impact of globalization on health; and, participatory and community approaches to promoting public health.

What, exactly, is promoting public health activity? How should we promote public health? Whose values are most important? Which theories can help inform health promoting practice? This text addresses these questions, exploring the key concepts, debates and issues involved in multi-disciplinary public health.

Offers a critical overview of the theoretical and practical issues involved in work with young people. This book demonstrates how critical reflection can be used as a tool to transform individual and collective practice. It explores the diverse ways in which services for young people are planned and organised.

Understanding Youth: Perspectives, Identities and Practices addresses the changing context and nature of youth, encouraging readers to understand different conceptualizations of youth, issues of identity and the key social practices that give shape to young people's lives in the contemporary period.

Shows you how to undertake your research better, quicker, and with as little hassle as possible. This book offers a comprehensive guide to better research practice and is fully compliant with research training requirements. It will also help you to acquire research methods skills as you proceed through your Masters or PhD programme.

With 19 new chapters, showcasing the best work of thinkers writing in this area and providing a coherent picture of key ideas and concepts to have emerged from this exciting field.

Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.

Re-evaluates mainstream issues. Specialists contribute their experiences and thoughts on strategy (regards operations as an asset in their own right), methodology (examines approaches towards process improvement), technology (asks why implementation of technology problems dog organizations) and human issues (repositions human input to the top).

Offers a comprehensive, contemporary and critical review of the key issues in strategic human resource management. This book helps students to explore thinking on topics as diverse as performance, pay, process reengineering, structure, ethics, culture, change and leadership.

This text and interactive CD-ROM help teachers extend their instructional practices through innovative approaches for teaching geometry as developed by the Open University's Centre for Mathematics Education.

Politics in Transition is a unique and innovative introduction to the key debates about politics and the state in the United Kingdom today.The authors draw on a wide range of disciplines - politics, sociology and economics - to highlight the issue of structural change and uneven development. The authors locate the United Kingdom firmly within the world political system but also investigate the roots of its individuality within that system. They analyse the ways in which the country is itself fragmented regionally, socially and at a local level.Politics in Transition is a course book for the Open University course, D314 Restructuring Britain.

Examines the significance of human resources management for effective organizational and competitive strategy and considers such issues as the development of appropriate organizational structures and cultures.

Policy Issues for Business

Provides a comprehensive selection of essential readings, covering six key areas in business strategy: What is Strategy?; Competition and Industry Effects; Resources, Capabilities and Core Competencies; Strategic Innovation and Firm Size; Organisational Structures, Learning and Knowledge Management; and the Global Information Economy.

Presents a selection of ten studies intended to illustrate the variety of social research which is being conducted within the ethnographic tradition. This book provide students with a grounding of the different underlying assumptions, researchers' positions, methods of data collection and theoretical approaches within ethnographic research.