Personal & Public Health

For over half a century, the CDC Yellow Book has been a trusted resource, providing international travelers and clinicians with expert guidance for...

This book provides a new outlook on the practice of palliative care worldwide. All five continents are represented in this book by global leaders i...

Hygienic food and water are essential for healthy life. Outbreaks of pathogens and chemical food poisoning occur regularly in this world, which kil...

Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic investigates, analyses and presents statistics to assess the claim by UN WOMEN that domestic viole...

Más del 85% de las personas con diabetes, considerada ya una pandemia no transmisible, reciben atención médica y cuidados en el ámbito del primer ...

This book examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of challenges related to ageing in India. It does so by widely referrin...

Although the world has experienced many epidemics, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is exactly that--novel. The impacts on society's way of life, e...

Prescriptive Memories in Grief and Loss: The Art of Dreamscaping introduces a wide range of therapists to a novel, strengths-based and imaginal pra...

This report shows how community-led interventions are central to achieving the end of AIDS and to sustaining the gains into the future. People livi...

This convenient reference provides clinicians with point-of-care guidance to help their patients stop using tobacco- and nicotine-containing produc...

COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst -- can we learn to build back better? The COVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a s...

The war in Vietnam is a watershed moment in United States history -- the first war lost by the U.S. despite its seemingly overwhelming military mig...

Food and Addiction: A Comprehensive Handbook, Second Edition brings scientific order to the issue of food and addiction, spanning multiple discipli...

Finding Career Longevity and Happiness in a complex world How can individuals achieve Career Happiness? What can employers do to engage their teams...

Revised and update to keep pace with changing issues that affect all women, the best-selling New Dimensions in Women's Health, Eighth Edition provi...

In the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of la...

In the early years of COVID-19, Americans witnessed the intersection of a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and civil unrest that galvanized t...

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3) supplements the 2030 UN Agenda by inspiring ideologies and implementation concerning global health and wellbe...

This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of t...

This volume looks at the key links between social determinants, health disparities and health and health care. There is a particular focus on macro...

This volume includes papers related to issues of technology, communication, health disparities and government options in health and health care ser...

Doubt is our product, a cigarette executive once observed, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds...

The narratives in this book offer rare and much-needed insight into the lived experiences and contributions of the largest cadre of global health w...