Public Health & Preventive Medicine

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesotas Iron Range On an unseasonably w...

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesotas Iron Range On an unseasonably w...

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesotas Iron Range On an unseasonably w...

Learning to Save the World provides an innovative analysis of how individuals inhabit, refuse, and reconfigure the contours of global health. In 20...

Natural medicines are derived from natural sources such as plants, animals and/or mineral origins. The use of traditional natural products is an em...

Health Behavior Change in the Dental Practice presents an overview of health behavior change, focusing on the spirit of motivational interviewing. ...

In the early twenty-first century, key public health issues and challenges have taken centre stage on the global scene, and health has been placed ...

AN INNOVATIVE AND ESSENTIAL NEW TOOL IN FIGHTING HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS The Handbook of Pediatric Infection Prevention and Control is t...

When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Vict...

An up-to-date course textbook that addresses the core concepts of quality and safety in healthcare.Co-authored by two experts, the text is written ...

A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while limiting efforts to eli...

How vermin went from being part of everyone's life to a mark of disease, filth, and lower status.For most of our time on this planet, vermin were c...

Exploring the fateful chains of events that gave rise to humanity's infectious diseases and pandemics.Why do global pandemics materialize? To addre...

Genomics is majorly impacting therapeutics development in medicine. This book contains up-to-date information on the use of genomics in the design ...

Verified by current World Health Organization and country-specific classifications, this comprehensive single volume effectively engages with the d...

This book provides a concerted supply chain perspective for dealing with pandemics on the scale of COVID-19.  Specifically, this book describes a n...

This book is designed to address the phenomenon of quality of life (QOL) as a central focus of public health. The complexity that involves the subj...

In setting primary ambient air quality standards, EPA''s responsibility under the law is to establish standards that protect public health, regardl...

The communication of health information is a critical determinant for the achievement and maintenance of health at the individual and population le...

Societal research has shown that there is a direct correlation between income disparities and health disparities. In other words: the poorer the po...

Obesity is considered a serious and complex condition. All obese people have previously been overweight and its conditions represent an intriguing ...

While the history of telemedicine dates back to the invention of the telephone about a hundred and fifty years ago where medical consultations were...

Spinal cord injury (SCI), and in particular cervical SCI, remains a devastating and catastrophic event for patients, their families and society, of...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

On 30 March 2010, the President signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which modifies a number of Medicare provision in PPACA and...

Book & CD-ROM. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who, as a member of the community, has the potential to deli...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One provides an overview of normal variations of pigme...

The book analyses how policies to prevent diseases are related to policies aiming to cure illnesses. It does this by conducting a comparative histo...

This book examines the risks and protective strategies of radiation exposure in the fields of medicine and the environment. Topics discussed in thi...

Concerns have been raised over recent decades about the backpack or school bag weight of children in countries world-wide. A strong association was...

The Health Care Reform Law makes many significant changes to the private and public markets for health insurance, as well as modifications to aspec...

Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a neurocutaneous disorder with a heterogenous presentation affecting 1 in 2500 to 1 in 3000 births. Our understanding ...

The harm associated with health care is a questionable issue and several systemic global strategies to reduce it with a safer system are being deve...

Measles is a disease of public health importance that is associated with high mortality and morbidity, particularly in developing countries. In rec...

Despite several improvements in risk assessment and exposure prevention, the occupational environment could expose workers to a wide variety of ris...