Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Through case studies, this book investigates the pictorial imaging of epidemics globally, especially from the late eighteenth century through the 1...

This book presents Urbal, an approach that applies impact pathway mapping to understand how food system innovations in cities, and their territorie...

This volume explores in depth femicide and feminicide, bringing together our current knowledge on this phenomenon and its prevention.No country is ...

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, defi...

Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information management and analytical sciences to identify, defi...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

This book explores what anthropology can contribute to an understanding of how people live through pandemics. It reflects on how pandemics are expe...

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)part of SDG3in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional dispar...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

In Longshot, investigative journalist David Heath takes readers inside the small group of scientists whose groundbreaking work was once largely dis...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriag...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the most important tools to help us understand public health and many aspects of our lives. Because o...

Statistics in Kinesiology, Fifth Edition With Web Resource, offers students in kinesiology and exercise science programs a unique introduction to t...

In todays difficult economic environment, worksite health promotion programs are becoming increasingly important as employers look for ways to con...

Neuroplasticity is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to func...

Neuroplasticity is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. It is when the brain is rewired to func...

Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020, and of how the rec...

This book is a collection of the best scientific research presented during the First International Conference of Indonesian Medical and Health Prof...

In recent years, the ways in which food is produced, distributed, and consumed have emerged as prominent health and social issues. With rising con...

APOLLO'S ARROW offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on American society as it unfolded in 2020, and on how the recov...

This book combines core chapters on different aspects of sustainable transport and health, together with case studies of particular approaches to s...

The growing number of networks delivering healthcare, and professionals learning together to improve care, has created a need for new kinds of mana...

The world is awash in chemicals created by fellow citizens, but we know little to nothing about them. Understanding whether even the most prevalent...

This book describes the events, activities and negotiations leading up to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session on international drug policy...

Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be foolish? In...

A thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of a text that has become an international standard for curriculum development in health profession...

The False Discovery Rate An essential tool for statisticians and data scientists seeking to interpret the vast troves of data that increasingly pow...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princesson February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation v...

The climate crisis, inequality, poverty, disease, hunger, food waste, and loss of biodiversity are all part of an extensive list of global challeng...

This book is an exploration of issues that are essential in end of life care. Understanding end of life practices across cultures and religions is ...

In our world of constant conflict, environmental destruction, cruelty, and misery for many, is a new direction needed more than ever?In this new se...

Die präklinische Notfallmedizin ist ein Hochrisikobereich. Sicherheitskultur und ein adäquates Risikobewusstsein sind demgemäß unumgänglich, um die...

The aim of our book is to describe the latest developments on aging research methodology , building upon previous editions, and updating the conten...

The new edition of this best-selling text presents the tools and techniques for effectively managing every kind of development and change in health...