Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health C...

Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023! The fifth edition of Mayhalls Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention has a new streamli...

This book familiarizes personnel serving as Emergency Managers, Safety Officers, Assistant Safety Officers, and in other safety-relevant Incident C...

Health Promotion: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication introduces students to the fundamental principles of health promotion in Australian ...

Disease is everywhere. Everyone experiences disease, everyone knows somebody who is, or has been diseased, and disease-related stories hit the head...

This new volume provides a timely study on the environmental challenges from a specific class of perfluorinated chemical compounds (PFCs) that are ...

In the mid-1950s, with planning and funding from the United States, Mexico embarked on an ambitious campaign to eradicate malaria, which was widesp...

APPLIED MEDICAL STATISTICS An up-to-date exploration of foundational concepts in statistics and probability for medical students and researchers M...

Women suffer disproportionate rates of chronic disease and disability from some conditions, and often have high out-of-pocket health care costs. Th...

Process evaluation is an essential component of any program evaluation or intervention research effort. This important resource offers an overview ...

Drawing on qualitative research with African actors and global health institutions, the authors explore the politics of how performance funding mod...

People with learning disabilities are affected by significantly more health problems than the general population and are much more likely to have s...

A doctor's powerful meditation on what his patients taught him and what they can teach us about health, empathy and healing. For over four decades,...

In the devastation that follows a major disaster, there is a need for multiple sectors to unite and devote new resources to support the rebuilding ...

Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

The staggering number of deaths and emergency department visits caused by firearm injuries has only grown with time. Costs associated with firearm ...

Influenza pandemics overwhelm health care systems with thousands or hundreds of thousands of sick patients, as well as those worried they may be si...

In the late 1980s, the National Cancer Institute initiated an investigation of cancer risks in populations near 52 commercial nuclear power plants ...

The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement brings together individuals and organizations that represent different sect...

Shine a spotlight on the benefits of promoting health in the workplace Workplace Health Promotion Programs focuses on the incredible value that em...