Personal & Public Health

This book explores child vulnerability in various contexts from a cross-country, comparative perspective. It shows how vulnerability in childhood d...

When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too ...

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact. U...

Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers students and practitioners an accessible exploration of the origins and developmen...

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chr...

Exposing the stakes and consequences of the enormous bureaucracy behind the administrative surveillance of alcohol consumption, this critical study...

Consistent running can positively influence our mental and physical health, extend life and the quality of it, and contribute to a good life. This ...

Your needs as a caregiver are just as important as those your family member with Alzheimer's Disease or dementia. This book will provide just the i...

Shine a spotlight on the benefits of promoting health in the workplace Workplace Health Promotion Programs focuses on the incredible value that em...

Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and ...

Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades a...

The new edition of this unique resource, grounded on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an es...

Diving into this beloved practice, Creative Writing explores how the written word can be used as a therapeutic tool in pursuit of improved mental h...

Bullying, Impact on Health, and Beyond is a systematic review of at least 2,000 published studies on bullying and other forms of victimization. The...

Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has rea...

This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and S...

Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. D...

Most parents start out wanting to raise healthy eaters. Then the world intervenes. In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Be...

Non-Toxic is an insightful, even-handed, evidence-based discussion about the environment in which we now find ourselves living, the environmental h...

A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY EPIDEMIOLOGY Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine...

Heritage and Wellbeing examines what role heritage can play in creating healthier societies, exploring how heritage can improve people's wellbeing ...

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities opera...

A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers h...

A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers h...

An invaluable resource for health professionals and students engaged in research, this thoroughly updated edition provides a guide to the major mea...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or...

A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them Youth suicide ...

This book offers an essential guide to treating trismus due to oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) a specific condition involving the mouth that is com...

Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or...

Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or...