Personal & Public Health

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

The Roundtable on Health Literacy brings together leaders from academia, industry, government, foundations, and associations and representatives of...

Health literacy has been shown to affect health outcomes. The use of preventive services improves health and prevents costly health care expenditur...

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address. The PMI, by developing ne...

This book investigates the links between the main sources of biological emergencies and presents a comprehensive policy framework that seeks to ach...

This book investigates the links between the main sources of biological emergencies and presents a comprehensive policy framework that seeks to ach...

Readers love Dr Neal Barnard's work - over 1000 5-star reviews for Your Body In Balance 'An excellent book, I loved it' Reader review 'A completely...

Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform has created major changes in the U.S. health care sys...

Organizational Change to Improve Health Literacy is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Board on Populati...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particu...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of ca...

Readers love Dr Neal Barnard's work - over 1000 5-star reviews for Your Body In Balance 'An excellent book, I loved it' Reader review 'A completely...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC, ...

Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinking challenges about their health from school, home ...

On September 14, 2017, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a ...

Oral health care and medical health care both seek to maintain and enhance human health and well-being. Yet, dentistry and primary care in the Unit...

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the...

This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures with...

This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health su...

This book makes a systematic empirical analysis of the quality of life of Chinese residents from the perspective of social change, expounds the con...

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the ...

Low back pain affects nearly everyone and has become an increasingly frustrating dilemma. People with back pain have been taken through a well-mean...