Public Health & Preventive Medicine

From prolonged duration of a disease, to permanent injury, to death, drug shortages have led to harmful outcomes for patients of all ages. Over the...

This book includes a collection of chapters which provide a comprehensive review of cutting edge research and offers new evidence on anti-smoking p...

One of the most provocative recent findings in modern medicine is that perinatal stress may have a subtle or drastic impact on tissue/organ ontogen...

Rotavirus infection is a common cause of acute gastroenteritis in children, which can cause severe dehydration and even death. There are many publi...

This book provides significant health statistics through reports from federal agencies. The statistics discussed include updates on previously repo...

Clostridium Difficile is a gram-positive anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium involved in antibiotic-associated diarrhea and colitis, which is develo...

Sudden cardiac death is a world-wide pandemic. Over the last years, basic and clinical research has greatly contributed to our understanding of the...

Singing is a great vehicle for communal activity, but it has disappeared as a part of adulthood in many communities. Children still sing in kinderg...

Throughout history, in times of economic or political uncertainty, people have called on Lady Luck for help. This book shows how to let chance and ...

Bone metastases are a common event for cancer patients. We have developed an innovative and unique clinical research program dedicated to palliativ...

Mercury occurs naturally in the environment and exists in several forms. Elemental mercury, also known as metallic of liquid mercury, is a unique m...

Realising the impact of smoking on human beings, the US Public Health Service updated its 2000 Guidelines for Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence i...

Why do we not have a vaccine for HIV? What are we doing wrong? Every HIV vaccine has failed so far, and public opinion is turning pessimistic again...

In this book, the authors gather and present current research in the study of the principles, analysis and benefits of screening tests. Topics disc...

This book examines the environmental sources, geochemistry and human effects of trace elements. Topics discussed include an assessment of cancer an...

USDA is responsible for ensuring the safety of poultry products. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report the U.S. food supply i...

Most U.S. residents want a society in which all persons live long, healthy lives; however, that vision is yet to be realised fully. As two of its p...

Being physically active is one of the most important steps that Americans of all ages can take to improve their health. But only half of adults and...

Endometrial cancer is the most common cancer of the female reproductive system, with more than 49,500 United States women that are diagnosed with t...

This book represents a body of work performed by students from a diverse set of disciplines and a variety of universities in the United States and ...

Book & DVD. This book provides an ongoing assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals by the use of biomonitor...

The Okavango Delta, a globally renowned wetland, is characterised by a mosaic of meandering watercourses, floodplains and islands, and is home to a...

Voluntary health- and nutrition-related claims by food companies were present on 43.1 percent of new products introduced in 2010. Health- and nutri...

The three clinical types of childhood diarrhoea include - acute watery, persistent and dysentery. Acute watery diarrhoea which lasts for less than ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), as amended, is intended to help employees balance work and family life. The act provides eligible ...

In this book, we present research on health issues in diverse cultures and especially research around immigrants who came to the United States from...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. More than one half of a person''s lifetime UV exposure occurs during childhood ...

An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US hea...

An approachable beginner's guide to health economics that brings the economist's way of viewing the world to bear on the fundamentals of the US hea...

The United States significantly undercounts the number of people who die in law enforcement custody each year. How can we fix this?Deaths resulting...

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomide In the early 1960s, Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be...

A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities.   An enduring paradox of urban public health is that m...

Health promotion is a core nursing topic and for the past decade, as a nurse, you will be spending more time and energy in the community, doing pre...

'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van T...

Think statistics is just for statisticians? Think again! BASIC ALLIED HEALTH STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS, 5th Edition shows how Health Information Mana...

'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'A must read. Informative, funny,...

The essential guide to recovering from concussion and other brain injuries.Recovering from a brain injury can be a challenging and prolonged proces...

By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship ar...

When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, Theres no future in infectious diseases. Theyve all been solved. Fortunately, Piot ignor...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...