Personal & Public Health

We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, Thi...

In the last decade, digital games have been reinvented as vehicles of self-expression, sense-making, empathy, and healing, rather than just as tool...

AN FT SUMMER BOOK OF 2020We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, ...

This book analyzes poverty and the mechanisms that lead to it in ethnic rural areas in China using macro- and micro-examinations as well as field s...

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition is a concise and practical guide to legal and ethical dilemmas facing healthcare p...

Principles of Health Education and Promotion provides readers with a solid foundation in the history, philosophy, theory, and ethics of health educ...

A new textbook based on the revised FETAC module descriptor (5N3734) introducing the knowledge, skill and competence to prevent and control infecti...

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 ...