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Towards a contemporary social care ‘prevention narrative’ of principled complexity: An integrative literature review

Fiona Verity, Jonathan Richards, Simon Read, Sarah Wallace

Health & Social Care in the Community, Volume: 30, Issue: 1

Swansea University Authors: Fiona Verity, Simon Read

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Prevention has become increasingly central in social care policy and commissioning strategies within the United Kingdom (UK). Commonly there is reliance on understandings borrowed from the sphere of public health, leaning on a prevention discourse characterised by the 'upstream and downstream&#...

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