<p>Wainwright and Calnan (both in medical sociology, at Bristol U., UK) base their analysis of work stress on its documentation in various sources, including litigation, government policy, trade unionism, employers' organizations and the media, as well as a qualitative study of lay accounts. Work stress is defined according to various disciplines, the historical definition and treatment are critiqued, and the sociological approach is described. The study then turns to the interesting question of why work stress is more prevalent now, concluding that new attitudes and cultural changes play a role. Distributed by Taylor &amp; Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

Work Stress: The Making of a Modern Epidemic

Calnan, Michael

WAINWRIGHT, DAVID

Business & Money

Open Univ Pr

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<li> Does trust still matter in health care and who does it matter to? </li>
<li> Have trust relations changed in the 'New' NHS? </li>
<li> What does trust mean to patients, clinicians and managers? </li>
</ul> In the NHS trust has traditionally played an important part in the relationships between its three key actors: the state, health care practitioners and patients. However, in recent years the environments in which these relationships operate have been subject to considerable change as the NHS has been modernised. Patients are now expected to play a more active role, both in self-managing their illness and in choice of care provider and clinicians are expected to work in teams and in partnership with managers.<p> This unique book explores the importance of trust, how it is lost and won and the extent to which trust relationships in health care may have changed. The book combines theoretical and empirical analysis, while also examining the role of policy.</p>
<p> Calnan and Rowe analyse data collected from interviews with patients, health care professionals and managers in primary care and acute care settings. </p>
<p> Among the issues covered are: </p>
<ul>
<li> The importance of trust to their relationships </li>
<li> What constitutes high and low trust behaviour </li>
<li> The changing nature of trust relations between patients, clinicians and managers </li>
<li> How trust can be built and sustained </li>
<li> How interpersonal trust affects institutional trust</li>
</ul> Trust Matters in Health Care is key reading for policy makers, health care professionals and managers in the public and private sector, and a useful resource for educators and students within health and social care and management studies.

Trust Matters in Health Care (State of Health)

Rowe, Rosemary

Law Practice

Open University Press

Trust in Health Care (State of Health Series)

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

The Sociology of the Health Service responds directly to the need to develop a sociological analysis of current health policy. Topics covered vary from privatisation and health service management to health education and the politics of professional power. Also included is an histroical review of sociology's contributions to health policy and proposals for an agenda for sociological health policy research in the 1990s.

The Sociology of the Health Service

Politics & Social Sciences

Gabe, Jonathan

Social Sciences

Routledge

Bury, Michael

Michael Calnan, using evidence from a wide range of research, shows how consumers define health and illness, how and when they decide to seek medical help and what their expectations of services are.

Health and Illness: The Lay Perspective

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Preventing Coronary Heart Disease: Prospects, Policies, and Politics

<p><p>Providing a sociological analysis of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic in England, this study places particular analytical emphasis on the interplay between powerful structural interests and the influence on the development of COVID-19 policy. Considering a range of actors, (including the government, scientific experts and the medical profession, the media, and the public) and the nature of their relationships with one another, the authors identify the key sociological aspects that have shaped, facilitated, challenged, or constrained COVID-19 policy in England.</p> <p>Drawing on published documentary material, the authors first examine government attempts to contain, delay, mitigate and suppress the spread of the coronavirus with non-pharmaceutical interventions in the absence of a vaccine (during the first wave) and then whilst vaccines were being gradually rolled out (during the second wave and third waves). The focus then shifts on to vaccination policy and the actors central in the design and implementation of the vaccination programme in England. The approach taken to the funding, development, and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines is also explored and furthermore considers vaccine coverage, vaccine passports, and vaccine nationalism. The authors conclude with a discussion of the overall impact of COVID-19 policy on health and between socio-economic groups and with reflections on the sociologies of pandemics and COVID-19.</p> <p>This book will appeal and be accessible both to policymakers and health service managers and to those studying for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in the social, medical, and public health sciences.&nbsp;</p></p>

Power, Policy and the Pandemic: A Sociological Analysis of COVID-19 Policy in England (Emerald Points)

Douglass, Tom

Sociology

Emerald Publishing Limited

<p>In the context of substantial changes in health service policy and public health policy in England over the last two decades, <i>Health Policy, Power and Politics</i>fills an important gap by providing an up-to-date and accessible account of recent trends in health policies and a sociological analysis of why these policies have taken the shape they have.&nbsp; <div><br /></div> <div>This book provides a theoretically informed analysis of key recent policy changes in England and how the interplay of powerful structural interests has influenced policy in health. It includes chapters on recent reforms in the NHS and the drift towards privatisation, policies aimed at enhancing public and patient involvement, the regulation of the drug industry, medicalisation and mental health policy, the role and effect of the media and recent changes in social and environmental health policy. The analysis examines the influence of the State, professional medicine, the media, commercial interests such as those of the pharmaceutical, food and fossil fuel industries, patient's groups and the wider global environment.&nbsp;</div> <div><br /></div> <div>While the key focus of the book is on England, the analysis drawn on by the author comes from a plethora of policy examples in health systems in high and low to middle income countries across the world. This widened context shines a light on the influence of globalisation and highlights both the distinctive character of health policy in England, as well as the common themes it shares in a world-wide context.</div></p>

Health Policy, Power and Politics: Sociological Insights

Emerald Publishing

A basic component of many social interactions, trust is especially vital within the context of severe mental illness. The heightened uncertainty and vulnerability of psychosis provides researchers a crucible within which to examine a number of questions central to contemporary theoretical debates around the nature of trust. Empirically analyzing how trust between users and providers of mental health services develops or falters, Patrick Brown and Michael Calnan ground these abstract concerns in concrete reality and shed new light on how best to assist this vulnerable population.

Trusting on the Edge: Managing Uncertainty and Vulnerability in the Midst of Serious Mental Health Problems

Brown, Patrick

Policy Press

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