Personal & Public Health

Originally published in 1962, this was the first comprehensive study of a group of families often referred to as problem families. Harriett Wilson ...

The fourth edition of this seminal work introduces students to social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and fro...

The fourth edition of this seminal work introduces students to social constructionism. Using a variety of examples from everyday experience and fro...

This second edition of Happiness Across Cultures contains 8 brand new chapters on previously uncovered topics, such as Covid19, refugees, and viole...

Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of interna...

This book investigates the creation of healthy and thermally comfortable built environments in a low-carbon manner with advanced air distribution, ...

In Reproductive Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Contemporary Economy, Alexander Styhre and Rebecka Arman illuminate issues that have given ri...

This book challenges the current state of childhood studies by exploring children and young peoples agency and relationships. It considers how rece...

Global public health is of growing concern to most governments and populations, nowhere more so than in Asia, the worlds largest and most populous ...

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britains colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in ...

Recent years have seen an explosion of new research dedicated to understanding the link between psychological trauma and juvenile delinquency. Buil...

Sexuality and sexual identity have been relatively marginalized areas in both social work education and practice. However, changes in policy and le...

Mutual-help groups have proliferated, diversified and adapted to emerging substance-related trends over the past 75 years, and have been the focus ...

Health Communication and Mass Media is a much-needed resource for those with a professional or academic interest in the field of health communicati...

This book provides applications of machine learning in healthcare systems and seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine by combining ...

This edited collection looks at how globalisation is influencing patterns of health and disease worldwide, in particular how decisions on health ar...

Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic condit...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

Originally published in 1956, Babies Growing Up aims to compress in to a brief yet readable form, the essentials of successful parentcraft at the t...

This book provides a comprehensive and enriching understanding of the construct of happiness from diverse perspectives. It provides readers with an...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

This handbook brings together research and innovation across two important and related fields, quality of life (QoL) and addiction recovery. Though...

This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across mul...