Personal & Public Health

This important collection provides an epidemiological perspective on the continuing scope of sickle cell disease (SCD) in sub-Saharan Africa, along...

Cet ouvrage complet présente les composantes des résultats en matière de qualité et de sécurité, dans un cadre élaboré par des infirmières expertes...

Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illnessMost of the worlds people now live in citi...

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-ninet...

When so much in Russia has changed, the banya remains. For over one thousand years Russians of every economic class, political party, and social st...

Serving as both an accessible textbook and an original synthesis of interdisciplinary scholarship, Emerging Infections traces the social and enviro...

Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil. When we chase happiness, it runs away like a cat ...

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe. It highlights...

The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the...

Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for teaching ge...

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is do...

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic ...

From intergalactic travel to the daily commute, enter this book and be transported to wonderful worlds where art and life intertwine and your ideas...

Stanfords pioneering behavioral scientist draws on a lifetime of research and experience guiding the NIH to make the case that America needs to rad...

From two leading experts, a revolutionary new way to think about and measure aging.Aging is a complex phenomenon. We usually think of chronological...

This book is divided into 5 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of the management of this unprecedented health crisis. The first chapter...

Next Level eating means prioritising eating in your daily routine. It means understanding the power food has to nourish, heal, support and energise...

Death and Religion: The Basics provides a thorough and accessible introduction to dying, death, grief, and conceptions of the afterlife in world re...

The Handbook of Traumatic Loss adopts a broad, holistic approach that recognizes traumatic loss much more fully as a multidimensional human phenome...

During the twentieth century, genes were considered the controlling force of life processes, and the transfer of DNA the definitive explanation for...

Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neur...

This book reviews the political significance of COVID-19 in the context of earlier pandemic encounters and scares to understand the ways in which i...

Biotech Juggernaut: Hope, Hype, and Hidden Agendas of Entrepreneurial BioScience relates the intensifying effort of bioentrepreneurs to apply genet...

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health c...

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and government...

This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children's and young peoples everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. T...

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older pe...

This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering...

Since its first publication in 1933, Clays Handbook of Environmental Health (under its different names) has provided a definitive guide for the env...

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female bod...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

This set of four volumes represents 50 years of research on the quality of life conducted by Alex C. Michalos. It brings together and puts into a h...

In recent decades, global healthcare professionals and organisations have formed a wide, evidence-based consensus that breastfeeding is usually the...

Auf der Grundlage führender empirischer psychologischer Forschungsarbeiten aus der ganzen Welt bietet dieses Buch wertvolle Erkenntnisse über Fra...

COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cult...

This report follows the first report produced under the Development Account project on: 'Strengthening consumer protection in the provision of heal...

THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each da...

Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and current knowledge to the psycho...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

Sifting through the numerous guidelines on physical activity and health published by government agencies, professional organizations, and associat...

With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War vete...

The public health community plays a vital role in identifying, responding to, containing, and recovering from emergencies. Essentials of Public Hea...