Personal & Public Health

Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from w...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provi...

This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities. This includes pap...

SOAP SAVES LIVES. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from in hand-...

''A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth'' New York Times Book Review''A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together ...

This is the fourth of sequential collections of the observations and applications on various health related topics. Most of the contributors of thi...

Approximately 3.4 million tons of biosolids, dry weight, are land-applied annually to farms, forests, rangelands, mine lands, and other land use ty...

PPACA required by 1 January 2014, the establishment in each state of health insurance exchanges -- marketplaces where eligible individuals and smal...

In this Public Health Yearbook 2014 we will touch upon several public health topics like Bedouin health, obesity in the Caribbean region, health in...

Throughout history, humans have consumed wheat simply to obtain energy from its starch and protein. In recent years, however, additional health-rel...

How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? ...

Over the last 150 years, the Public Analyst profession has hidden its light under a bushel, with the notable exception of Fredrick Accum, one of th...

The process in which calcium salts build up in soft tissue, causing it to harden is known as calcification and may be classified based on whether t...

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...

The link between physical activity and health benefits has been intuitively known for years. Moreover, medical literature clearly demonstrates that...

Mobile phone use in the United States has risen dramatically over the last 20 years, and Americans increasingly rely on mobile phones as their sole...

Steroid hormones secreted from peripheral reproductive endocrine tissues regulate many important physiological functions not only during developmen...

In public health and in medicine, the concept of health-related quality of life refers to a person or group''''s perceived physical and mental heal...

Children in rural areas face particular risks to their health and well-being. Some risks relate to their demographic characteristics; rural childre...

The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute o...

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the reco...