Personal & Public Health

Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades a...

The new edition of this unique resource, grounded on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an es...

Diving into this beloved practice, Creative Writing explores how the written word can be used as a therapeutic tool in pursuit of improved mental h...

Bullying, Impact on Health, and Beyond is a systematic review of at least 2,000 published studies on bullying and other forms of victimization. The...

Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has rea...

This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and S...

Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. D...

Most parents start out wanting to raise healthy eaters. Then the world intervenes. In Kid Food, nationally recognized writer and food advocate Be...

Non-Toxic is an insightful, even-handed, evidence-based discussion about the environment in which we now find ourselves living, the environmental h...

A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY EPIDEMIOLOGY Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine...

Heritage and Wellbeing examines what role heritage can play in creating healthier societies, exploring how heritage can improve people's wellbeing ...

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities opera...

A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers h...

A powerful call to confront the reasons why politics is jeopardising women's health across the world, by a prize-winning academic'Harman delivers h...

An invaluable resource for health professionals and students engaged in research, this thoroughly updated edition provides a guide to the major mea...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the systematic and analytical process of comparing benefits and costs in evaluating the desirability of a project or...

A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how to stop them Youth suicide ...

This book offers an essential guide to treating trismus due to oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) a specific condition involving the mouth that is com...

Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or...

Sexual exploitation is becoming endemic in our society. It involves victims being coerced to enter abusive sexual relationships with individuals or...

Dr Max Pemberton used to describe himself as in love with smoking. Ironically, he was doctor specialised in addiction but found it impossible to qu...

Anxious Geographies offers a unique perspective on social anxiety, framing it as both a social and spatial phenomenon. Through a meticulous explora...

This book introduces the use of statistics to solve a variety of problems in exercise science and health and provides readers with a solid foundati...

This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African- American men. While there have been signifi...

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease distribution, in past and present societal and ecologica...

Clinical Exercise Science is an introduction to core principles and best practice in exercise science for students and practitioners working with c...

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook, providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, an...

Liberal universality is the dominant framework of human rights in the literature. This paradigm asserts that human rights norms must be interpreted...

This book provides a contemporary, comprehensive and general review of vitamins and the role of vitamins in diseases. In the first part of the book...

Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been cha...

Fatal Denial argues that over the past 150 years, US health authorities explanations of and interventions into Black infant mortality have been cha...

This teaching resource provides staff in education settings with a comprehensive way of supporting children, aged 4-9, to learn that they have a ri...

'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and f...

With an increasing focus on Simulation-Based Education (SBE) in health care, this new book is a step-by-step guide to becoming an effective SBE edu...

Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practiti...

This book is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to promote and encourage mental health in their school, or evaluate their existing provi...

HEALTH PROMOTION IN NURSING, 3E, International Edition takes readers through a holistic approach of health and wellness that examines healthy lifes...

This book concerns HIV prevention.  In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by...

This book concerns HIV prevention.  In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by...

Natural landscapes are intricately tied to human health and well-being. While contemporary lifestyles have caused people to feel disconnected from ...