Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Agile Implementation describes the underlying theories and frameworks that explain health delivery systems and lays out the 8 steps of the Agile Im...

Health officials monitor and investigate food-borne illness in a number of ways. Surveillance is used to track trends in the incidence of several c...

On 11 June 2009, in response to the global spread of a new strain of H1N1 influenza, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to b...

Payment policies for certain medical services, such as physician services and the most durable medical equipment are based on fee schedules. This b...

Prenatal alcohol exposure has been directly implicated in a wide range of deficits that adversely influence the development of affected individuals...

Therapeutic ultrasound can be broadly defined as the application of ultrasound waves for biomedical purposes other than imaging. For imaging, the m...

Health care is witnessing an explosion of fundamental, clinical and translational research evidence. The emerging paradigm of evidence-based health...

Antiseptics and disinfectants are extensively used at home, in occupied buildings, recreational areas, industries (the water industry, food process...

Beer is defined as a fermented alcoholic beverage made of malted cereals, water, hops, and yeast. This alcoholic beverage has been consumed for tho...

This book discusses the influences, treatment options and health effects of substance abuse. Chapter One examines the phenomenon of alcoholism and ...

This book outlays the possible influence of some important aspects of human migration and social mobility on the biological characters of human pop...

This book provides new research on the management strategies, environmental impacts and health risks of air pollution. Chapter One analyses histori...

The issue of health care fraud and abuse has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, primarily due to the fact that financial losses attribut...

A central provision of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires the establishment of exchanges in each state, on-line market...