Personal & Public Health

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health c...

This edited collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on some of the key health challenges faced by individuals, communities, and government...

This exciting new book illustrates and analyses the complexities of children's and young peoples everyday lived experiences throughout childhood. T...

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older pe...

This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering...

Since its first publication in 1933, Clays Handbook of Environmental Health (under its different names) has provided a definitive guide for the env...

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female bod...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

This set of four volumes represents 50 years of research on the quality of life conducted by Alex C. Michalos. It brings together and puts into a h...

In recent decades, global healthcare professionals and organisations have formed a wide, evidence-based consensus that breastfeeding is usually the...

Auf der Grundlage führender empirischer psychologischer Forschungsarbeiten aus der ganzen Welt bietet dieses Buch wertvolle Erkenntnisse über Fra...

COVID-19: Cultural Change and Institutional Adaptations provides critical insights into the impact of the pandemic on the relationship between cult...

This report follows the first report produced under the Development Account project on: 'Strengthening consumer protection in the provision of heal...

THE ESSENTIAL WORK IN TRAVEL MEDICINE -- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED FOR 2018 As unprecedented numbers of travelers cross international borders each da...

Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and current knowledge to the psycho...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

Sifting through the numerous guidelines on physical activity and health published by government agencies, professional organizations, and associat...

With a focus on mental illness, Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland provides the first in-depth investigation of disabled Great War vete...

The public health community plays a vital role in identifying, responding to, containing, and recovering from emergencies. Essentials of Public Hea...