Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Societal research has shown that there is a direct correlation between income disparities and health disparities. In other words: the poorer the po...

Obesity is considered a serious and complex condition. All obese people have previously been overweight and its conditions represent an intriguing ...

While the history of telemedicine dates back to the invention of the telephone about a hundred and fifty years ago where medical consultations were...

Spinal cord injury (SCI), and in particular cervical SCI, remains a devastating and catastrophic event for patients, their families and society, of...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

On 30 March 2010, the President signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which modifies a number of Medicare provision in PPACA and...

Book & CD-ROM. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who, as a member of the community, has the potential to deli...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One provides an overview of normal variations of pigme...

The book analyses how policies to prevent diseases are related to policies aiming to cure illnesses. It does this by conducting a comparative histo...

This book examines the risks and protective strategies of radiation exposure in the fields of medicine and the environment. Topics discussed in thi...

Concerns have been raised over recent decades about the backpack or school bag weight of children in countries world-wide. A strong association was...

The Health Care Reform Law makes many significant changes to the private and public markets for health insurance, as well as modifications to aspec...

Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a neurocutaneous disorder with a heterogenous presentation affecting 1 in 2500 to 1 in 3000 births. Our understanding ...

The harm associated with health care is a questionable issue and several systemic global strategies to reduce it with a safer system are being deve...

Measles is a disease of public health importance that is associated with high mortality and morbidity, particularly in developing countries. In rec...

Despite several improvements in risk assessment and exposure prevention, the occupational environment could expose workers to a wide variety of ris...

This book is an overview of an intelligence assessment on the connections between health and U.S. national interests. Highly publicised virulent in...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

Cosmetic surgery (CS) has become popular and common in Hong Kong, especially with the emergence of beauty salons, to which clients have easy access...

For all of our advances in health care and achievements in public health that have contributed to an increased life expectancy, there still remain ...

Compassion positively correlates to happiness and increases in psychological capabilities, as supported by a substantial body of research. The conc...

Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educa...