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We live in a time when the environment makes headlines, especially in association with global climate change and the potential human impact on the ...

Societal research has shown that there is a direct correlation between income disparities and health disparities. In other words: the poorer the po...

Young people are regarded as future assets of the society. Hence, adolescent prevention programs are commonly developed to tackle adolescent risk b...

In the traditional Chinese culture, families showed several characteristics. First, male members generally held a superior position whereas females...

In this yearbook for 2011 we start out with a description of research from the University of Toronto in Canada on bone metastases. The next section...

Research studies have examined the relationship between working memory, cognitive skills, and academic abilities. However, while some studies and s...

A variety of topics are presented in this book that seek to reflect on medical history before and after the golden age of the Medical Renaissance. ...

In this yearbook for 2012 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start our with experience from Hong Kong on palliative car...

Over the past 60 years, the world has seen gradual and hard-won progress in reducing child mortality and improving the lives of opportunities of ch...

A large proportion of children and youth have mental health problems that follow different trajectories over time. Adolescence is a period in which...

As St George's University, Master of Public Health (MPH) program celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019, there have been significant gains and cha...

It is very clear that children in every country experience abuse and neglect. The descriptions of the child welfare systems in different countries ...

It is estimated that 86 million adult Americans have prediabetes and with that, a risk of developing T2DM (type 2 diabetes) within one in ten patie...

Mental illness comes in many qualities and many degrees, from the young patient with low self-esteem and incomplete psychosexual development, to th...

Sexology, the art and science of helping other people with their sexual problems, has been an integrated part of every culture throughout history. ...

In the prevention science approach, focus is put on identifying risk and protective factors in adolescent risk behaviour. Based on this approach, m...

Looking back over the course of the three-plus decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, scholars and researchers have made many significant strides in und...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

Holistic medicine, or quality of life as medicine, as we often call it, is basically a strategy for improving the patients quality of life, through...

Smoking has well-known health hazards. It is associated with lung cancer, oral cancer, stroke, heart disease, emphysema, and other short- and long-...

In this yearbook for 2014 we present you with the latest research on pain management. We start out with the ethical mind of Dr Feelgood , discuss ...

Congress reauthorized two laws in 2007, the Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA) and the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA). PREA require...