Health and social care

Understanding health and social care

In setting the stage, “Understanding Health and Social Care” tracks the history of the welfare sector back to its charity and voluntary action roots in the early 19th century. From that point onwards, it tells the story of the gradual formalisation of both social services and the National Health Service, accompanied by an evolution of practices, emergence of health professions and developments ...

Understanding health and social care

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both health and social care in the UK. With health and social care increasingly asked to work in partnership, there is a need for textbooks written in a not too ‘uniprofessional’ way to be able to respond fully to the joined-up problems. This textbook presents some theoretical frameworks to bridge the gap between both services. Therefore, it is rel...

social media and health care: necessity of facing their challenges.

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Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland

Since 1997 the development of partnership working across the public sector has been one of the key themes of UK government policy (Balloch and Taylor 2001). One area where partnership working has had a major influence has been in the field of health and social care. Whilst a diverse range of partnership mechanisms have developed between health and social care (Dowling et al 2004), equally diver...

Health and social care integration (Summary)