Full Description
An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book, Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in, and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense.
Key Features:
Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control, to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo
Interprofessional in nature and relevant to all those involved in the provision of medicine, health, and social care irrespective of their roles
Truly international in nature in that the chapters have been developed by a range of individuals from across the globe
Contents
Part 1: Psychosocial Perspectives
Chapter 1: Psychosocial theories and approaches: Their impact upon infection prevention and control
Chapter 2: The psychosocial nature of infection prevention and control
Chapter 3: The concept of truth
Part 2: Leadership Perspectives
Chapter 4: Leadership and influence in infection prevention and control
Chapter 5: Power and compliance within infection prevention and control practice
Chapter 6: Patient safety, governance, leadership and infection prevention and control
Chapter 7: Communicating with compassion: service user perspectives
Chapter 8: The weaponising of IPC and its heart breaking consequences
Chapter 9: Why do we choose to work in infection prevention and control?
Part 3: Real world perspectives
Chapter 10: Human factors engineering in infection prevention and control
Chapter 11: How we talk about infection prevention and hand hygiene matters for behaviour change
Chapter 12: Do campaigns make you anxious: A focus on unintended consequences
Chapter 13: Educating, engaging, campaigning - social media as an adjunct to infection prevention and control
Chapter 14: Unshackling infectiousness and dismantling stigma: Gay men and HIV
Chapter 15: Physician Associates and their role in reducing the transmission of infection - a personal perspective
Chapter 16: Infection prevention and control in healthcare-built environments
Chapter 17: Musings on philosophy and infection prevention and control
