Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and ...

This timely book explores the spatial and social injustices within our streets, malls, schools, and public institutions. Taken-for-granted acts lik...

This multi-volume reference set contributes new thinking and evidence to a critical global issue: How can we better understand, prepare for, and re...

This book systematically explores the lives and varied experiences of older people in South Africa. Though a relatively youthful country, the share...

This book explores the magnitude of the congenital anomalies and developmental disabilities based on the data from an established surveillance and ...

This book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand the interrelation of care, emotion, ...

This book introduces a quality of life index that compares the intra-urban particularities of 23 cities in the Argentine Republic. Integrating demo...

Originally published in 1995, The Body Under Stress, reissued here with a new preface, seeks to define positive health, the skills needed to acquir...

India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare inf...

This title was first published in 2003. In this key volume, William Housley examines the concepts of multidisciplinarity and team practice in socia...

Dermoscopy can be a useful tool to evaluate skin of color for general dermatologic diseases; however, it does require practitioners to be aware of ...

Pre-eclampsia, a complication of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and/or edema and/or proteinuria, can have profound effects on the mother a...

The Fifteen Minute Hour is well-established as a classic text, providing invaluable support for primary care practitioners aiming to increase patie...

... well-structured with good bullet points, diagrams, and quality coloured pictures making it most easy to read. Overall, I considered this littl...

Published in association with NASPAG, this updated second edition gives quick access to the essential information. The authors combine their clinic...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

First published in 1998, this volume why and how genetic engineering has emerged as the technology most likely to change our lives, for better or w...

Health promotion with young people has largely been framed by theories of behaviour change to target unsafe, unhealthy and/or risky behaviours. The...

Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in ...

This title was first published in 2002: Numerous reports have identified the serious problems of under-representation of, and discrimination agains...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

It is a common assumption that sport is good for us and that participation in sport embodies public health benefits. With sport being increasingly ...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences a...