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Disablement in the community
Journal
of Health
Economics
8 (1989) 493. North-Holland
BOOKS RECEIVED
The Global impact of AIDS, edited by A.F. Fleming, M. Carballo, D. FitzSimons, M.R. Bailey and J. Mann, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York City, NY, 1988. Hardback $69.50; paperback $29.50.
Proceedings from the First International Conference on the Global Impact of AIDS held in London in March 1988. The first section covers the patterns of AIDS transmission in specific populations and cultures throughout the world. The second section reports on the overwhelming impact of AIDS on every aspect of life, affecting people in their most productive years and creating financial and emotional burdens for family members. The third section examines worldwide prevention strategies. New educational tactics, blood transfusion systems, programs for intravenous drug abusers, future vaccines and specific therapies are described.
Disablement in the Community, edited by D.L. Patrick and H. Peach, Oxford
University
Press, New York, 1989. $17.50.
The balance of health and social care for disabled people has shifted from institutions to care in the community, largely based on the assumption that disabled people enjoy a higher quality of life in their own homes. This book shows how knowledge of the epidemiology of disablement can help planners, service providers, patients, and voluntary organizations choose strategies for community care. A team of social and medical scientists at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School conducted the Lambeth studies of disablement over the last decade. Their cumulative experience in the development of social and health policy for disablement is reported using original data from a series of different studies designed to diagnose problems and to generate a social response on the part of all members of society.
0167-6296,‘9O:S3.50
C 1990, Elsevier
Science
Publishers
B.V. (North-Holland)
of Health
Economics
8 (1989) 493. North-Holland
BOOKS RECEIVED
The Global impact of AIDS, edited by A.F. Fleming, M. Carballo, D. FitzSimons, M.R. Bailey and J. Mann, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York City, NY, 1988. Hardback $69.50; paperback $29.50.
Proceedings from the First International Conference on the Global Impact of AIDS held in London in March 1988. The first section covers the patterns of AIDS transmission in specific populations and cultures throughout the world. The second section reports on the overwhelming impact of AIDS on every aspect of life, affecting people in their most productive years and creating financial and emotional burdens for family members. The third section examines worldwide prevention strategies. New educational tactics, blood transfusion systems, programs for intravenous drug abusers, future vaccines and specific therapies are described.
Disablement in the Community, edited by D.L. Patrick and H. Peach, Oxford
University
Press, New York, 1989. $17.50.
The balance of health and social care for disabled people has shifted from institutions to care in the community, largely based on the assumption that disabled people enjoy a higher quality of life in their own homes. This book shows how knowledge of the epidemiology of disablement can help planners, service providers, patients, and voluntary organizations choose strategies for community care. A team of social and medical scientists at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School conducted the Lambeth studies of disablement over the last decade. Their cumulative experience in the development of social and health policy for disablement is reported using original data from a series of different studies designed to diagnose problems and to generate a social response on the part of all members of society.
0167-6296,‘9O:S3.50
C 1990, Elsevier
Science
Publishers
B.V. (North-Holland)