Public Health & Preventive Medicine

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...

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

Understand the practical and emotional impact of your symptoms and learn to organise every step of your health management. If youre dealing with a...

On the interdependent relationship between health and academic achievement.Research indicates that healthy children are more likely to succeed in s...

Taking a rights-based approach to the interdependence of play and health in childhood, this text argues that the childs right to health and develop...

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by...

It is now widely acknowledged that there is more to health than just the absence of illness. This book aims to widen the perspective of health prof...

Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the globe. Even if the worl...

Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, with diabetic retinopathy (DR) remaining the most common cause of eye diseas...

Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities...

There are not enough resources in health care systems around the world to fund all technically feasible and potentially beneficial health care inte...

Two decades after the third edition of Lilienfeld's Foundations of Epidemiology advanced the teaching of epidemiology, this completely revised four...

The entrenched separation of primary care and public health in the United States has been damaging and self-perpetuating. As both sectors struggle ...

Covering both principles and practice, The ESC Textbook of Preventive Cardiology is a 'state of the art' resource for both the primary and secondar...

'Remarkable . . . grips with the force of a thriller' Robert Macfarlane'The most brilliant and essential book on Chernobyl since that of Nobel Priz...

What is it like to live with an illness? How do diagnostic procedures, treatments, and other encounters with medical institutions affect a patient'...

What will the ethnic, racial and cultural face of the United States look like in the upcoming decades, and how will the American population adapt t...

To successfully conduct an epidemiological study, academic subject knowledge must be combined with careful consideration of the practical elements ...

Although an effective human rabies vaccine has existed since 1885, rabies continues to kill an estimated 59,000 people every year. Sixty per cent o...

COVID-19 is a highly contagious viral illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome SARSCoV-2. It has had a devastating effect on the worlds ...

This text is a comprehensive review in normal and abnormal pregnancy physiology, the most common etiologies of maternal medical emergencies, recogn...

This exciting new book provides a novel interdisciplinary introduction to Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology. Its accessible approach illum...

Straightforward Statistics: Understanding the Tools of Research is a clear and direct introduction to statistics for the social, behavioral, and li...

Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all p...

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with depression. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any ci...

The authoritative guide to understanding and helping a teenager with bipolar disorder. While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under ...

Extraordinary feats of conjuring have long entertained and astounded audiences. However, few people realise that magic also has the power to improv...

This book introduces the most recent research and innovative developments regarding the new strains of COVID-19. While medical and natural sciences...

An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society. The evolution of the cell phones we carry...

Even before 2020, chronic loneliness was a private experience of profound anguish that had become a public health crisis. Since then it has reach...

Video is everywhere. But what is video art and how does it differ from cinema? What connections has it made with healthcare and medicine? And what ...

Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of many health professional...

Bringing together experts in the field, this important book considers the underlying risk factors that create situations of psychosocial vulnerabil...

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***'David Haslam is uniquely placed to reflect on how healthcare has lost its way, what needs to be done to...

This book discusses the why and how of each step of data-based medical research that can provide basic information to emerging researchers and medi...

This book explores the practical aspects of setting up and assessing the quality of health checks. It is the first book to support clinicians and m...

Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues h...

Promotion of healthy behaviors and prevention of disease are inextricably linked to cultural understandings of health and well-being. Health commun...

The very best journalism from one of Britains most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Ba...