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Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews

Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy

By: Chris Bonell,G. J. Melendez-Torres,Emily Warren

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Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews

Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy

By: Chris Bonell,G. J. Melendez-Torres,Emily Warren

This book describes an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, assessing what interventions work, how and for whom. Rejecting the stalemate between trials and realist evaluation, it draws on the best of both. Randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews offer the least biased means of assessing intervention effects but tell us little scientifically about how interventions work. Policy-makers and practitioners are also not supported to decide which interventions are likely to achieve most benefits in their local contexts. Realists use other forms of evaluation and evidence synthesis exploring how intervention mechanisms interact with context to generate outcomes. But these approaches lack rigour in assessing causality. This book proposes how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within randomised controlled trials and systematic reviews. This enables evaluations and evidence synthesis to benefit from the more nuanced questions posed within realist enquiry while maintaining rigour in assessing causality.

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1009456601

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Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews

Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy

By: Chris Bonell,G. J. Melendez-Torres,Emily Warren

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Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews

Rigorous, Useful Evidence to Inform Health Policy

By: Chris Bonell,G. J. Melendez-Torres,Emily Warren

Describing an innovative approach to the evaluation of complex health interventions, this book allows reader to assess what interventions work, how and for whom. Proposing how realist evaluation methods may be incorporated within trials and systematic reviews, this approach provides useful evidence to inform policy and scientific advancement.

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100945658X

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Health Promotion Practice

By: Macdowall, Wendy,Bonnell, Chris,Davies, Maggie

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Health Promotion Practice

By: Macdowall, Wendy,Bonnell, Chris,Davies, Maggie

This book will guide you through the philosophical, methodological, theoretical, ethical and political underpinnings of health promotion to enable you to become a more effective practitioner" -- Back cover.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335218407

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Family Communication

By: Chris Segrin,Jeanne Flora

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Family Communication

By: Chris Segrin,Jeanne Flora

Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the-art research and theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting cutting-edge research, it focuses on classic theories and research findings that have influenced and revolutionized the way scholars conceptualize family interaction. This text offers a thorough and up-to-date presentation of scientific research in family communication for both teachers and students of family communication as well as professionals who work with families. This second edition features: Chapters updated with the latest research, including over 2000 references. Material on understudied family relationships, such as extended family relationships and gay and lesbian relationships Recent research on understudied topics in family communication, including the influence of technology on mate selection, negotiating work and family stress, single parenting, cohabitation, elder abuse, forgiveness in marriage, and the links among communication, culture, and mental health. A revised chapter on parent-child communication, taking a lifespan perspective that helps organize the large body of research in this area. A new chapter devoted to extended family relationships, with special focus on grandparent-grandchild relationships, in-law relationships, and adult children and their parents. An expanded review of family conflict processes, especially in relation to decision making and power. A companion website provides chapter outlines, exam questions, and PowerPoint slides for students and instructors. Undergraduate readers should find the information easy to understand, while advanced readers, such as graduate students and professionals, will find it a useful reference to classic and contemporary research on family communication and relationships.

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Routledge

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1135159920

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Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities

By: Eric Emerson,Chris Hatton

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Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities

By: Eric Emerson,Chris Hatton

An authoritative, evidence-based overview of the health needs of people with intellectual disabilities and how to manage these needs appropriately.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521133149

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Distributing Condoms and Hope

The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health

By: Chris A. Barcelos

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Distributing Condoms and Hope

The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health

By: Chris A. Barcelos

Distributing Condoms and Hope is a feminist ethnographic account of how youth sexual health programs in the racially and economically stratified city of “Millerston” reproduce harm in the marginalized communities they are meant to serve. Chris A. Barcelos makes space for the stories of young mothers, who often recognize the narrow ways that public health professionals respond to pregnancies. Barcelos's findings show that teachers, social workers, and nurses ignore systemic issues of race, class, and gender and instead advocate for individual-level solutions such as distributing condoms and promoting "hope." Through a lens of reproductive justice, Distributing Condoms and Hope imagines a different approach to serving marginalized youth—a support system that neither uses their lives as a basis for disciplinary public policies nor romanticizes their struggles.

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University of California Press

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0520306708

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9780520306707

Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work

By: Chris Dyke

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Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work

By: Chris Dyke

You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate. The third edition of the best-selling Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work guides you through the principles of good writing and methodically shows you: how to analyse how to structure the process of writing an assessment (researching, chronologising, informed data-gathering, putting it all together), how to get this done under time constraints, explores the practical and psychological barriers to good practice and looks at how you turn good analysis into useful recommendations. This new edition features brand new content, on subjects such as decision-making and cognitive fallacies in assessment, how to conduct analysis on domestic violence and systematic thinking and reflexivity in assessment. There are also updates on MCA assessments and any new legislation and documents. Written in an accessible way and packed with examples and case studies, this book is both practically-minded and constantly returning to first principles: reminding you what it is you are trying to achieve and teaching you how to write reports that can be read by families and judges alike. You will learn how to write high quality, useful and timely assessments without becoming mechanistic or managerial. This book kills the myth of a trade-off between efficiency and quality of work.

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Critical Publishing

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1915713315

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An Introduction to Evaluation

By: Chris Fox,Robert Grimm,Rute Caldeira

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An Introduction to Evaluation

By: Chris Fox,Robert Grimm,Rute Caldeira

Both practical and theoretical in approach, this book is the perfect companion for student researchers and policy makers alike. It provides actionable advice for planning and implementing evaluations, while also instilling an ability to assess the evaluations of others and consider the ways in which evaluation evidence could influence policy and practice. Drawing upon a wide range of examples from policy areas like education, criminal justice, and health and social care, this book showcases how evaluation is an interdisciplinary research practice with a spectrum of applications. Each chapter contains philosophical underpinnings and applied knowledge as well as examples from published evaluations. Specific topics include how to: Choose an approach to evaluation Plan, design, and conduct evaluations Approach evaluations using theories of change Differentiate between process, impact, and economic evaluations Understand the role of quantitative and qualitative methods in data collection Use systematic reviews and other tools to assess and disseminate evaluation findings From getting started in the field to turning evidence into policy, this book will guide you through every step of the evaluation process.

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SAGE

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1473987806

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The Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS)

Prioritizing Adolescents’ Perspectives

By: Chris Swerts

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The Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS)

Prioritizing Adolescents’ Perspectives

By: Chris Swerts

Individual quality of life has been widely used as a frame of reference guiding service provision in social and health services, as well as a critical objective or outcome of these services. Yet, the topic of quality of life in the context of child and youth care remains a relatively uncharted territory. This dissertation is based on a practice-oriented project that focuses on bridging the gap between research and practice on the topic of quality of life of adolescents in youth care. This work concentrates on the development, validation, and application of a new self-report tool, grounded in youngsters’ experiences and perceptions, to methodically and systematically assess the quality of life of adolescents in youth care from their own perspectives: the Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS). The QOLYSS aims to help understand how youngsters perceive, evaluate, and make sense of varying discrete aspects and circumstances of their lives. This line of work offers valuable insights to develop person-centered planning and implement individualized support, tailored to youngsters’ characteristics, perceptions of life, wishes, and expectations. It further helps unveil critical opportunities and barriers regarding a life of quality on the different layers of everyday life of youngsters. The work presented here provides a concrete tool and a number of cross-cutting implications for research, practice and policy when aiming to build quality of life-enhancing environments for youngsters in youth care that help them (re-)claim ownership of their lives and care pathways.

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Gompel&Svacina

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9463714162

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9789463714167

The Art of Painted Comics

By: Chris Lawrence,Alex Ross

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The Art of Painted Comics

By: Chris Lawrence,Alex Ross

The history of painters in comics goes back to the dawn of pulp magazine covers. From "The Shadow" and "The Spider" to "The Black Bat" and so many other characters, painter's works have graced the covers of comics and pulps, which have influenced many artists over the decades. This deluxe coffeetable art book, edited and overseen by Alex Ross — one of the comic industry's most recognized painters, whose expertise has helped guide and define its contents — is the most important, most comprehensive prestige hardcover retrospective of the history of painters in comics, of all time.

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Dynamite

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1606903535

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9781606903537

Between Possibility and Peril

Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights

By: Chris Kendall

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Between Possibility and Peril

Domestic Courts and the Selective Enforcement of International Human Rights

By: Chris Kendall

When do domestic courts protect international human rights? By the end of the twentieth century, the world had witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of international human rights law and a growing number of democratic states whose domestic institutions promised to protect those rights. A single institution often became the center of these efforts: the court. Advocates in newly democratized states could look to high courts to demand that their governments comply with international law and bring policy into line with liberal rhetoric. This process, however, put these young courts in a difficult position. With no deep well of historical legitimacy to draw on in new political environments, courts had to weigh high-minded legal principles against the limited resources or political preferences of elected governments. In such situations, how did these courts respond, and what strategies allowed some to successfully build their legitimacy over time while others faltered, succumbing to political pressure or suffering political backlash? In Between Possibility and Peril, Chris Kendall explores this dynamic in three states—Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa—in the twenty years following each country’s democratic transition. The case studies reveal a common pattern: what matters most is not international law itself, but a court’s ability to control its procedural environment. Control over these “rules of the game” allows a court to selectively engage international human rights issues that can enhance its legitimacy and build public support while avoiding those issues likely to put it in direct conflict with hostile political actors. The result is paradoxical—the most successful courts in the long term are those who in the short term often choose to disappoint rights advocates.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512826227

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Working with Youth Violence

The Name. Narrate. Navigate program

By: Tamara Blakemore,Chris Krogh,Shaun McCarthy,Louise Rak,Graeme Stuart

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Working with Youth Violence

The Name. Narrate. Navigate program

By: Tamara Blakemore,Chris Krogh,Shaun McCarthy,Louise Rak,Graeme Stuart

Relevant for experienced and emerging social work and human service practitioners alike, this book explores the uniquely challenging, yet seemingly ubiquitous issue of youth violence. It provides an authentic and accessible discussion of the theories and evidence that inform practice with youth violence alongside the voices of practitioners and the young people they work with. These voices are drawn from work with the Name.Narrate.Navigate (NNN) program for youth violence. NNN provides a trauma-informed, culturally safe preventive-intervention for young people who use and experience violence, and specialist training for the workers who support them. The program embraces creative methods as a bridge between contemporary evidence on trauma and violence and Aboriginal healing practice. The dual focus of the program is informed and interconnected by action research involving Aboriginal Elders and community members, practitioners, and key service stakeholders, including young people with a lived experience of violence. This book is ideal for use in professional cross-disciplinary programs, such as criminology, sociology, social work, and psychology, across post-secondary, vocational, and university sectors.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003810373

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Lone Survivors

How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

By: Chris Stringer

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Lone Survivors

How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

By: Chris Stringer

Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors (source éditeur)

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Macmillan

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0805088911

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9780805088915

Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice

A Guide for Liberation

By: Chris Barcelos

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Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice

A Guide for Liberation

By: Chris Barcelos

Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice is an accessible and intellectually rich introduction to the topic for scholars, activists, policymakers, reproductive justice organizations, and youth themselves. The book helps us understand how young people's political organizing in the new millennium resists interlocking systems of oppression that limit bodily autonomy and self-determination. This organizing demonstrates a coalitional form of politics grounded in the struggles and worldmaking of youth of color and queer and trans youth. This analysis allows us to see how issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline and transgender youth's access to gender affirming care are reproductive justice issues alongside parental notification abortion laws and support for pregnant and parenting teens. Through case studies, activist spotlights, and organizing 'how-tos,' the youth activism described in this book is a powerful tool for understanding the interconnection of struggles for collective liberation

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Univ of California Press

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0520390083

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9780520390089

Service Contracts

By: Maurits Barendrecht,Chris Jansen,Marco Loos,Andrea Pinna,Rui Cascao,Stephanie van Gulijk

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Service Contracts

By: Maurits Barendrecht,Chris Jansen,Marco Loos,Andrea Pinna,Rui Cascao,Stephanie van Gulijk

The rules presented in this volume of "Principles of European Law" deal with service contracts. The economic importance of service contracts within the European Union is enormous. The European Commission recently estimated that services account for some 50% of EU GDP and for some 60% of employment in the Union – though an exact figure is hard to determine given that many services are provided by manufacturers of goods. According to the European Commission, many services appear in official statistics as manufacturing activity, meaning that the role of services in the economy is often significantly underestimated.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3866537115

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9783866537118

Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery

Two Volume Set

By: Chris de Souza

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Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery

Two Volume Set

By: Chris de Souza

Otorhinolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery is the latest edition of this comprehensive two-volume guide to all the sub-specialties of otorhinolaryngology, including brand new chapters and the most recent developments in the field. New topics in this edition include laryngopharyngeal reflux, trauma and stenosis of the larynx, and laryngeal cancer, bringing the text firmly up to date. Illustrated in full colour across 2000 pages, this vast two-volume set is an ideal source of reference for otorhinolaryngoloy practitioners and residents.

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Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers

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9351524612

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9789351524618

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Health Promotion Practice

Family Communication

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Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities

Health Inequalities and People with Intellectual Disabilities

Distributing Condoms and Hope

Distributing Condoms and Hope

Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work

Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work

An Introduction to Evaluation

An Introduction to Evaluation

The Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS)

The Quality of Life in Youth Services Scale (QOLYSS)

The Art of Painted Comics

The Art of Painted Comics

Between Possibility and Peril

Between Possibility and Peril

Working with Youth Violence

Working with Youth Violence

Lone Survivors

Lone Survivors

Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice

Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice

Service Contracts

Service Contracts

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