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...