Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rura...

The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corner...

How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries examines the unexpected yet empirically predic...

AN ESSENTIAL NEW RESOURCE ON A FUNDAMENTAL DETERMINANT OF HEALTH Sleep, along with the sleep-related behaviors that impact sleep quality, have eme...

Global health is at a crossroads. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has come with ambitious targets for health and health services worldw...

In most countries, problematic drug use is dealt with primarily as a criminal justice issue, rather than a health issue. Accordingly, a large propo...

In this revised and updated edition, renowned cardiologist William Davis explains how eliminating wheat from our diets can prevent fat storage, shr...

An in-depth look at the theoretical foundations and practical applications of health promotion Introduction to Health Promotion gives students a wo...

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster University. Interviews with N...

Disease Surveillance: Technological Contributions to Global Health Security reminds us of the continued vulnerability of the world to contagious in...

This book considers Swedens pandemic management which differed so significantly from much of the rest of the world: it provoked intense and wide-re...

Master GIS Applications on Modelling and Mapping the Risks of DiseasesInfections transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, triatomine bugs, sandflies, and ...

In social sciences, education, and public health research, researchers often conduct small pilot studies (or may have planned for a larger sample b...

Every consultant has pearls of wisdom they wish they could share with GPs: knowledge they have acquired from years of experience and evidence-based...

For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside wha...

Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decad...

Patients with pain emanating from their spines represent some of the most frequent and challenging cases for physical therapists. Here is a compreh...

Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Sixth Edition is a clear and concise distillation of the major topics covered in the best-selling Delive...

FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOSTATISTICS leads you through the methods, techniques, and computations of statistics necessary for success in the medical field....