Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book embarks on a journey never taken before, approaching the imaging of the disease of achalasia with new pathophysiological assumptions in m...

Heavenly Hurts Surviving AIDS-Related Deaths and Losses imparts vital information for anyone touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. In the AIDS ...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

The neighborhoods and the biophysical, political, and cultural environments all play a key role in affecting health outcomes of individuals. Unequa...

Part I of this book explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems. Part II explores the debate about access...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This highly practical text on gynecologic emergencies includes sonographic findings and laparascopic investigations and management for point-of-car...

Data Analysis with Competing Risks and Intermediate States explains when and how to use models and techniques for the analysis of competing risks a...

This unique book draws upon a collection of essays and personal reflections by Dr Peter Tate, covering at least half a century of his experience of...

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

Cannabis Physiopathology and Detection features an outstanding collection of contributions from leading researchers around the world. Papers were p...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

Although Chinas new healthcare reform, launched in 2009, has achieved remarkable results in improving Chinas medical and healthcare system, it is r...

'This book gives plenty of examples of ad hominem attacks, intimidation, slander, threats of litigation, deception, dishonesty, lies and other viol...

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN DERMATOLOGYFifth EditionRICHARD ASHTON, MA, MD, FRCP, Consultant Dermatologist, Lighthouse Clinic, Isle of Wight, UK, for...

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issue...

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that occurs in almost all foods and is important for many normal physiological functions. In a typical Western ...

This joint publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) provides a concise analysis of...

Hearing is essential for normal communication. We are able to localise sound with surprising accuracy and can detect time differences as small as t...

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to...

Its always been said, Children are not young adults, and the examination of a child needs to be conducted with emphasis on the physiologic differen...

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

Designing and Conducting Research in Health and Human Performance, 2nd edition shows students how to become effective producers and consumers of he...

The term Swahili describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge. Having been subjected to a severe financial crisis and cri...

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

This text offers a succinct overview of the essential clinical applications of ultrasound in infertility management. It will be of benefit to estab...

Clinical Data Quality Checks for CDISC Compliance using SAS is the first book focused on identifying and correcting data quality and CDISC complian...

In this age of information, the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of data have become a fundamental part of professional life; nowhere mor...

Public health is a key priority for developed and developing nations. Indeed, many countries have sought strategies to promote health and reduce he...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In this unique book, international trainer and consultant Lisa Cherry invites professionals from education, social work and healthcare to engage in...

A welcome and important contribution to a thankfully growing debate. Mental illness remains in some ways the last great taboo in our society, a tab...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by...

Climate change is causing, and will increasingly cause, a wide range of adverse health effects, including heat-related disorders, infectious diseas...

As evidenced by the anthrax attacks in 2001, the SARS outbreak in 2003, and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, a pathogen does not recognize geog...

While biomedical researchers may be able to follow instructions in the manuals accompanying the statistical software packages, they do not always h...

Productivity Through Wellness for Live Entertainment and Theatre Technicians provides the tools for individuals and organizations to achieve a heal...

Originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, this collection was timed to coincide with the publication of the new NICE...

Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby i...

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

This edited volume draws from health communication scholars and offers a depthful examination of the roles vaccination have played and continue to ...