Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book represents a body of work performed by students from a diverse set of disciplines and a variety of universities in the United States and ...

Book & DVD. This book provides an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals by the use of biomonitor...

The Okavango Delta, a globally renowned wetland, is characterised by a mosaic of meandering watercourses, floodplains and islands, and is home to a...

Voluntary health- and nutrition-related claims by food companies were present on 43.1 percent of new products introduced in 2010. Health- and nutri...

The three clinical types of childhood diarrhoea include - acute watery, persistent and dysentery. Acute watery diarrhoea which lasts for less than ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), as amended, is intended to help employees balance work and family life. The act provides eligible ...

In this book, we present research on health issues in diverse cultures and especially research around immigrants who came to the United States from...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. More than one half of a person''s lifetime UV exposure occurs during childhood ...

An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US hea...

An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US hea...

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this?Deaths resulting...

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be...

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.   An enduring paradox of urban public health is that m...

Health promotion is a core nursing topic and for the past decade, as a nurse, you will be spending more time and energy in the community, doing pre...

'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van T...

Think statistics is just for statisticians? Think again! BASIC ALLIED HEALTH STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS, 5th Edition shows how Health Information Mana...

'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'A must read. Informative, funny,...

The essential guide to recovering from concussion and other brain injuries.Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged proces...

By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship ar...

When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, Theres no future in infectious diseases. Theyve all been solved. Fortunately, Piot ignor...