Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Since devolution in 1999, social policy within Scotland has burgeoned. The Scottish Parliament has a range of powers in relation to key policy area...

The Role and Potential of Communities in Population Health Improvement is the summary of a workshop held by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on...

More than 2 decades have passed since the 1990-1991 conflict in the Persian Gulf. During the intervening years, many Gulf War veterans have experie...

Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive in...

Population surveys traditionally collect information from respondents about their circumstances, behaviors, attitudes, and other characteristics. I...

The United States has been a generous sponsor of global health programs for the past 25 years or more. This investment has contributed to meaningfu...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the signature injuries of the U.S. conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it affects veterans of all...

Substantial empirical evidence of the contribution of social and behavioral factors to functional status and the onset and progression of disease h...

This book intends to provide the lessons and efforts on malaria control and elimination practices in several classical endemic areas with different...

Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services they need to make ...

This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field invest...

This book is a critical disability studies examination of the lived experience of chronic pain, engaging with and making a significant contribution...

This book intends to present emerging Federated Learning (FL)-based architectures, frameworks, and models in Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) appl...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

This fully revised and updated second edition is an essential introduction to inferential statistics. It is the first introductory statistics text ...

Dizziness and Vertigo describes the basic knowledge and practical skills necessary for managing patients presenting with common symptoms of dizzine...

Dizziness and Vertigo describes the basic knowledge and practical skills necessary for managing patients presenting with common symptoms of dizzine...

Patients have always been encouraged to be active participants in managing their health. New technologies, cultural shifts, trends in healthcare de...

Haematology encompasses a broad range of topics ranging from common and relatively benign conditions such as iron deficiency anaemia, hereditary di...

This book presents 15 cases as studies in how to reach a diagnosis from a presenting patient. It covers 15 major topics in clinical dermatology as ...