Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Now in its sixth edition, Living with Drugs continues to be a well-respected and indispensable reference tool. Michael Gossop has updated this new ...

This work examines health, defined in its broadest meaning, in rural China today. It explores the current social distribution of health status, hea...

Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changin...

Botulinum toxin injections are the most used and best-known aesthetic treatment internationally, but there remain a number of problematic topics an...

This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Rom...

This book gathers contributions highlighting the role of women in science, with a focus on health and disease.Women have contributed in no small wa...

The book covers all aspects of future preparedness for COVID-19 pandemic-like situations as the COVID-19 pandemic commences at its endemic stage. P...

Significant health-industry human resource needs increase the reliance on family and friends to support older adults hoping to age in place. This b...

Cómo estudiar un estudio y probar una prueba. Análisis crítico de la investigación clínica basada en evidencia es un recurso ideal, claro y conciso...

Written by Peter J. Fos—an expert in epidemiology with more than twenty years teaching experience—Epidemiology Foundations offers an ideal introduc...

Establishing ethical and privacy protection aspects in scientific research, especially in medical research, has a long history. Medical data are us...

This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of t...

Durante más de 30 años, Diseño de investigaciones clínicas ha establecido la pauta como la guía más práctica y de mayor autoridad para médicos, pro...

From Victorian anxieties about syphilis to the current hysteria over herpes and AIDS, the history of venereal disease in America forces us to exami...

Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country ...

Worüber und wie man mit Söhnen im Gespräch bleiben kann, das erfahren Eltern in diesem Buch. Die frühe Pubertät ist eine ideale Zeit für vertrauen...

Originally published in 1983, The Making of Community Work is the outcome of a two-year study of community work in the United Kingdom. The main pur...

Computational Genomics with R provides a starting point for beginners in genomic data analysis and also guides more advanced practitioners to sophi...

In biological research, the amount of data available to researchers has increased so much over recent years, it is becoming increasingly difficult ...

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civili...

Die interdisziplinäre Kommunikation, vor allem an den sensiblen Versorgungs- und Informationsschnittstellen des Arzneimittelmanagements bei multimo...

The interface of public health and federalism are increasingly gaining scholarly attention in the fields of comparative federalism and welfare stat...

The book offers readers a nuanced understanding of sexual and reproductive rights, health status, associated concerns and policy critiques within t...

An essential introduction to concepts of causation and causal inference that explores how our definitions of causes in epidemiology influence how w...

The second edition of this book offers an expanded and updated blueprint for more consistently improved practice, emphasizing family process and st...

This book weaves together intersectional threads that underlie the experiences of older men and women in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. While ...

This innovative volume examines the phenomenological, existential and cultural dimensions of grief experiences. It draws on perspectives from philo...

From HIV to H1N1, pandemics pose one of the greatest threats to global health in the twenty-first century. Defined as epidemics of infectious disea...

Written by experts in the analytical chemistry of tobacco smoke, Tobacco Smoke Exposure Biomarkers summarizes the toxicology, metabolic pathway, an...

With chapters revolving around practical issues and real-world contexts, this Handbook offers much-needed insights into the ethics of primary healt...