Personal & Public Health

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

The Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Health Literacy convened a 1-day public workshop to explore the relationship between palliative care and he...

In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of en...

The proliferation of consumer-facing technology and personal health information technology has grown steadily over the past decade, and has certain...

The aging and evolving racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population has the United States in the midst of a profound demographic shift and ...

In its landmark report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, the Institute of Medicine noted that there are 90 million adults in the U...

The environment for women's health has changed over the last 25 years. Increased use of automobiles can lead to health risks from lack of physical ...

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under Gandhi and to aid groups working in Africa to prom...

Management and Practice in Health and Human Service Organisations is an authoritative, evidence-based, relevant and practical resource for undergra...

This book analyzes how Chinese people use their time, including how busy Chinese seek a healthy work-life balance, how some children win from the o...

The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and Popular Culture offers rich insights into the ways in which communication about health through p...

From childhood to millennials and beyond, it is essential we take a life-course approach to occupation and work when in pain. Written by experts in...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

This practical and accessible textbook provides an overview of the key principles for conducting ethnography in healthcare settings. Shedding new l...

Human population genetic research (HPGR) seeks to identify the diversity and variation of the human genome and how human group and individual genet...

Natural Substances for Cancer Prevention explores in detail how numerous investigations in chemical biology and molecular biology have established ...

Intellectual disability is a lifelong condition involving deficits in both intellectual and adaptive functioning. Individuals with intellectual dis...

Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe from diabetes to climate change are regularly discussed in terms of imbalances...

The Ideal Guide to parkrun 'A brilliant emotive book which spreads the joy and love of parkrun' Dame Kelly Holmes Perfect for any parkrunner, or ...

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, san...

Relationships, jobs, and health behaviors-these are what New Year's resolutions are made of. Every year millions resolve to adopt a better diet, ex...

Activist networks throughout Europe developed the concept of precarity at the turn of the 21st century. Retail chain employees, freelancers, cultur...

This book examines the impact of climate change on eye disease and eye health.Filling a lacuna in the existing literature, Scott Fraser takes a dee...

This book examines the relationship between media and medicine. Drawing on insights from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies, it considers...

By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM...

Bad Souls is an ethnographic study of responsibility among psychiatric patients and their caregivers in Thrace, the northeastern borderland of Gree...

This handbook critically examines spaces of mental health and wellbeing across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to ...

Suited for use by classrooms, groups, and individuals, Charting Your Course: A Life-Long Guide to Health and Compassion is a positive answer to the...

Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the worlds population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not j...

A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowl...

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior? Can online games help us learn? When it comes to video games, these are often the types of quest...

Loss and consequent grief permeates nearly every life changing event, from death to health concerns to dislocation to relationship breakdown to bet...

Dealing with the social experience of grief, loss and bereavement are challenging areas for everyone, including health and social care practitioner...

A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as healthcare--and f...

This book addresses the analysis of self-containment of employment (SCE), which measures journey-to-work trips among the percentage of workers who ...

Originally published in 1987, reissued here with a new preface, this book presented a history of the Queens Nursing Institute on the occasion of th...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

This book presents an integrated international exploration of social well-being from a comparative standpoint: how it is framed, how it is perceive...

Whilst death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how i...

This book focuses on injustices that have taken place to deaf people and the sign language community in Finland from 1900.For decades, memories and...

This book is to elucidate personal and social bases for personal resilience, thus addressing the issue concerning the predominance of social factor...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Dance and movement are everywhere and for everyone with a body,...

This important book provides a much-needed exploration and examination of honor abuse, violence, and killings from a psychological perspective. Wri...