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...