Personal & Public Health

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition...

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the factors that impact physical, mental, and social well-being, offering a broad definition...

A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons.Access to good food is the litmus test of a societys commitment ...

A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons.Access to good food is the litmus test of a societys commitment ...

One in five adults and one in six youth experience a mental health illness within a year. These common conditions are often managed within complex ...

Originally published in 1960, when every twentieth child in this country was born illegitimate, every eighth was conceived outside marriage; every ...

Now in its sixth edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new ...

This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, hea...

This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Rom...

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This b...

This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of t...

From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to exami...

An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how w...

This book weaves together intersectional threads that underlie the experiences of older men and women in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. While ...

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philo...

Bullying as a Social Experience presents data from both the US and New Zealand and draws on past research from around the world to show how social ...

Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incor...

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. ...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

Taking a decentred approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which r...

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school, community, fami...

In recent years, health has become a pressing issue in international politics - a development which has been reflected in the growth of academic li...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy area...