Personal & Public Health

Health literacy is a critical skill for engaging in healthy behaviors to reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes across the continuum of ca...

Readers love Dr Neal Barnard's work - over 1000 5-star reviews for Your Body In Balance 'An excellent book, I loved it' Reader review 'A completely...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board convened a workshop in Washington, DC, ...

Young people develop health literacy skills in a variety of environments, facing critical thinking challenges about their health from school, home ...

On September 14, 2017, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a ...

Oral health care and medical health care both seek to maintain and enhance human health and well-being. Yet, dentistry and primary care in the Unit...

This book sets out to restore the concept of healing to its place within and beyond pain medicine, in chapters authored by keynote speakers to the...

This book studies children's wellbeing from the perspective of Ethiopian immigrant families in Israel. It examines how the meeting of cultures with...

This book lays out an intuitive and practical approach to mental health and wellbeing that any school can adopt to transform their mental health su...

This book makes a systematic empirical analysis of the quality of life of Chinese residents from the perspective of social change, expounds the con...

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the ...

Low back pain affects nearly everyone and has become an increasingly frustrating dilemma. People with back pain have been taken through a well-mean...

The US prescription drug business is a $500 billion industry whose rising prices carry profound consequences for patients, caregivers, employers an...

This fascinating collection shines a social epidemiological spotlight on the key public health issues affecting sub-Saharan Africa today.Beginning ...

The Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Health, Crime, and Punishment covers many topics on the numerous ways in which mental and physical health an...

Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care: COVID Era provides an in-depth examination on how digital technology has impacted publ...

This book details how the processes of communication are affected by the presence of a pandemic and establishes a research agenda for those effects...

This reorganized and updated edition of Writing for Todays Healthcare Audiences provides new digital supports for students and course instructors.D...

In this volume, distinguished scholars of narrative provide their early attempts - triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic - to understand crises from a...

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria, looking back to how health care...

This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents. It pr...

This book explores the implications and significant ethical, social, economic and health challenges that an ageing world population presents. It pr...

Understand, manage, and treat Long Covid.Reports suggest that over 100m people around the world are living with Long Covid (more than 1.5m in the U...

This volume examines progress in sustainable and resilient development of niche forms of tourism from a health and wellbeing perspective. It also a...

Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries ...

Over 700,000 people globally take their own lives every year, which equates to one death by suicide every 40 seconds. Among teenagers and young adu...

Across the last fifty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological science...

A frank and amusing account of pandemics including covid-19. This book is incredibly timely .....The author has the surprising ability to grab the ...