Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book examines contemporary policy debates from opposing perspectives. It considers seven key topics in todays society: land use, education, in...

The book addresses contemporary challenges related to chronicity in the context of life and health. The book is structured across 11 core axes to a...

This book provides applications of machine learning in healthcare systems and seeks to close the gap between engineering and medicine by combining ...

At the root of everything we do is the knowledge we possess. We begin to acquire knowledge in infancy and never stop for the rest of our lives. Wit...

This book follows the path of One Health, bringing great contributions in the area of zoonotic diseases, the parasites that are responsible for zoo...

This book covers a wealth of knowledge from experts and informed stakeholders on the best ways to understand, prevent, and control fall-related ris...

This edited collection looks at how globalisation is influencing patterns of health and disease worldwide, in particular how decisions on health ar...

Dissociative disorders are one of the psychiatric consequences of childhood psychological trauma. While oppression is an aspect of traumatic condit...

The concept of frailty offers a convenient way to introduce unobserved heterogeneity and associations into models for survival data. In its simples...

Communication about vaccination has become a public battleground. The global adoption of social media has increased the visibility and influence of...

This book provides a complete teaching companion that an organization can use to educate on the hard topics of racism, antiracism, microaggressions...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

This book explores the stress faced by public safety professionals across an array of occupational fields, such as police, correctional officers, p...

Originally published in 1956, Babies Growing Up aims to compress in to a brief yet readable form, the essentials of successful parentcraft at the t...

This book provides a comprehensive and enriching understanding of the construct of happiness from diverse perspectives. It provides readers with an...

The Nurses of Ellis Island: Life and Work inside the Golden Door tells the story of the nurses who offered hope and healing to some of Americas mos...

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accou...

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accou...

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our livesand our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in ...

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the...

This unique book addresses the need for the scholarly works that include the voices of clinicians, community stakeholders, and leaders of faith-bas...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

This handbook brings together research and innovation across two important and related fields, quality of life (QoL) and addiction recovery. Though...

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tub...