Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, affecting nearly one in three Americans. It is prevalent in adults and end...

This book investigates the links between the main sources of biological emergencies and presents a comprehensive policy framework that seeks to ach...

This book investigates the links between the main sources of biological emergencies and presents a comprehensive policy framework that seeks to ach...

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis fo...

At the heart of precision medicine lies one concept missing from modern medicine the unique genetic and biochemical make-up of each individual pat...

Advances in Virus Research, Volume 120, the latest release in this esteemed series, presents the latest research and developments in viruses.

For the first time in decades, promising news has emerged regarding efforts to curb the obesity crisis in the United States. Obesity rates have fal...

Readers love Dr Neal Barnard's work - over 1000 5-star reviews for Your Body In Balance 'An excellent book, I loved it' Reader review 'A completely...

The urban built environment is a prime setting for microbial transmission, because just as cities serve as hubs for migration and international tra...

The U.S. Census Bureau has reported that 56.7 million Americans had some type of disability in 2010, which represents 18.7 percent of the civilian ...

Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care reform has created major changes in the U.S. health care sys...

SMART VaccinesStrategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccinesis a prioritization software tool developed by the Institute of Medicine that util...

This book highlights the role of vitamins in preventing or reducing the pathogenesis or treatment of infectious viral diseases based on current ong...

This book highlights the role of vitamins in preventing or reducing the pathogenesis or treatment of infectious viral diseases based on current ong...

Researchers in applied linguistics have found medical and health contexts to be fertile grounds for study, from macro-levels of conceptual analyse...

Organizational Change to Improve Health Literacy is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Board on Populati...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particu...

This comprehensive and updated new edition offers scholarly summaries of theory and research on the social psychological influences on subjective w...

On June 16, 2016, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement held a workshop at the Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, New York...

Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and ...

This clear and informative volume, packed with rich sources and illustrations, will be a must for students and scholars embarking on a study of pub...

To examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acu...

Large catastrophic events, or rare acute events, may cause situations in which a local jurisdiction's medicines and medical supplies are not suffic...