Personal & Public Health

Using an evidence-based, critical, population health approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the key errors and most effective int...

This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of both the key concepts and practical skills required to work in the fie...

This comprehensive textbook provides students with an accessible overview of both the key concepts and practical skills required to work in the fie...

This open access book focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on well-being, happiness and quality of life, taking into account the mediatin...

Everybody wants to know what makes people happy. Artistic takes on the topic in literature, popular songs and cinema are widespread, but not terri...

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architect...

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architect...

Psoriasis is a challenging skin condition impacting all areas of life, including the choice of activities people engage in, their relationships and...

This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, social, and philosophical p...

This book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the...

This book presents and examines the challenges and compromises required to deliver inclusivity in the existing commercial-built environment and the...

As the global financial crisis enters its sixth year, this volume offers a wide-ranging critique of its handling. Academics in the field of social ...

A Therapists Guide to Adolescent Development is a practical guide to understanding adolescent development and applying that knowledge in therapeuti...

Emerging healthcare networks are interconnected physical systems that use cyber technologies for interaction and functionality. The proliferation o...

Classical computers encode information in binary bits that can either be 0s or 1s. In a quantum computer, the basic unit of memory is a quantum bit...

The bestselling textbook to understanding health research, updated and expanded Research Methods in Health Promotion provides students and practit...

Eating Right in America is a powerful critique of dietary reform in the United States from the late nineteenth-century emergence of nutritional sci...

What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

In Wild & Well, Dani Williamson helps readers connect to a healthy, brighter future as well as help them find a community that will support and...

The Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and processes of economic development in...

We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, veganism to vitamins, Thi...

In the last decade, digital games have been reinvented as vehicles of self-expression, sense-making, empathy, and healing, rather than just as tool...

AN FT SUMMER BOOK OF 2020We all want to be healthier, stronger and live longer, but what really works? From stress to saturated fats, HIIT to HRT, ...

This book analyzes poverty and the mechanisms that lead to it in ethnic rural areas in China using macro- and micro-examinations as well as field s...

Legal and Ethical Issues for Health Professionals, Fifth Edition is a concise and practical guide to legal and ethical dilemmas facing healthcare p...

Principles of Health Education and Promotion provides readers with a solid foundation in the history, philosophy, theory, and ethics of health educ...

A new textbook based on the revised FETAC module descriptor (5N3734) introducing the knowledge, skill and competence to prevent and control infecti...

This book explores child vulnerability in various contexts from a cross-country, comparative perspective. It shows how vulnerability in childhood d...

When we ponder about whether it is time to finish a degree, start a family, or retire, we often draw on age to make an assessment: When are we too ...

Bodies and Lives in Ancient America offers a broad overview of what it was like to live and die throughout North America before European contact. U...

Part of the Understanding Public Health series, this book offers students and practitioners an accessible exploration of the origins and developmen...

This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chr...

Exposing the stakes and consequences of the enormous bureaucracy behind the administrative surveillance of alcohol consumption, this critical study...

Consistent running can positively influence our mental and physical health, extend life and the quality of it, and contribute to a good life. This ...

Your needs as a caregiver are just as important as those your family member with Alzheimer's Disease or dementia. This book will provide just the i...

Shine a spotlight on the benefits of promoting health in the workplace Workplace Health Promotion Programs focuses on the incredible value that em...

Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and ...