This article reviews the historical declines in cardiovascular mortality and provides an
overview of the contribution of social and economic factors to disease change. We document …

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to
the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the …

Measuring ąuality of life is currently at the forefront of the various fields of science. In spite of
a great interest in ąuality of life and many attempts to measure it, there is no method of …

This paper charts the evolution of the financial and economic crisis in the global economy
and argues that the likely outcome will be sustained growth in the two very large Asian driver …

This book, for the first time ever, critically examines the role of full service and extended
schools. The authors draw on their extensive international evaluations of this radical new …

Contemporary neuroscience is advancing our understanding of the role of the brain in
psychiatric disorders. These successes, allied with broader social forces, have allowed …

This broad-ranging text examines the big issues about political attitudes, behaviour and
participation in contemporary Britain. Written by a leading expert and drawing on extensive …

The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial
meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic …

The ways in which Britons spend their free time have remained relatively stable since the
1950s. This is compared with the concurrent scale of economic restructuring (de …

Past research on the associations between area-level/contextual social capital and health
has produced conflicting evidence. However, interpreting this rapidly growing literature is …