Public Health & Preventive Medicine

First published in 1997, this volume emerged in the ongoing struggle between those favouring centralized and those favouring decentralized governme...

Object-Based Learning and Well-Being provides the first explicit analysis of the combined learning and well-being benefits of working with material...

Teaches Students How to Perform Spatio-Temporal Analyses within Epidemiological StudiesSpatio-Temporal Methods in Environmental Epidemiology is the...

This book addresses the major issues involved in developing and evaluating community-based delivery (CBD) healthcare services administered by nonme...

The growing number of cancer survivors presents a new challenge to generalists and specialists involved in their care. Prior cancer treatments may ...

This title was first published in 2000: Over the past decade the welfare state has come under sustained attack not only from quarters which never a...

The New York Times has called adherence the worlds other drug problem. Physicians prescribe medications, but patients do not always use them. While...

The book presents an integrative theory of hard-to-maintain behaviours, that includes hard-to-reduce or eliminate behaviours like smoking and other...

Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the e...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...

Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing...

The health benefits associated with regular physical activity are now widely recognized. This book examines how social determinants such as race, e...

Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...

Acts of public defiance towards biomedical public health policies have occurred throughout modern history, from resistance to early smallpox vaccin...

Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health commun...

This title was first published in 2001. Enhancing the quality of health services remains a key challenge for all health systems, whatever their sta...

Todays era of intense globalization has unleashed dynamic movements of people, pathogens, and pests that overwhelm the static territorial jurisdict...

This book analyses young peoples societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainab...

This book examines how legal institutions reify the value of death in the twenty-first century. Its starting point is that bio-technological innova...

The term mindlines has become common currency in the world of research implementation and evidence-based practice. This book updates, develops and ...

Research Design in Chinese Medicine: Linking Social and Health Sciences is an innovative and comprehensive guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of...

Research Design in Chinese Medicine: Linking Social and Health Sciences is an innovative and comprehensive guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of...

This book comprehensively compares the development of population control policies in China and India, their implementations, and the population cha...

This book highlights plastic pollution, especially microplastics, and the consequences on the environment and on the human diet through food chain/...

Adolescent rites of passage are ubiquitous sociocultural processes that feature across all manner of social activity. As transitional healthcare be...

This book is a practical reference and educational tool that teaches headache specialists and neurologists about the comorbid illnesses they will e...

Willkommen in der Welt der GenZ eine Generation, die das Gesundheitswesen neu definiert. In dem Sammelband Wie die Generation Z das Gesundheitswes...

In an era marked by exponential growth in data generation and an unprecedented convergence of technology and healthcare, the intersection of biosta...

This book examines why and how different countries developed different policy positions and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, by surveying a samp...

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges. It examines AIs rol...

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges. It examines AIs rol...