Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book is an overview of an intelligence assessment on the connections between health and U.S. national interests. Highly publicised virulent in...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

Cosmetic surgery (CS) has become popular and common in Hong Kong, especially with the emergence of beauty salons, to which clients have easy access...

For all of our advances in health care and achievements in public health that have contributed to an increased life expectancy, there still remain ...

Compassion positively correlates to happiness and increases in psychological capabilities, as supported by a substantial body of research. The conc...

Clinicians and those in health sciences are frequently called upon to measure subjective states such as attitudes, feelings, quality of life, educa...

Communication skills are essential to effective health promotion and public health practice. This textbook bridges the gap between health communica...

The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Gl...

By 2030, the world will be short of approximately 15 million health workers - a fifth of the workforce needed to keep healthcare systems going. Glo...

At a time of increasing volatility in healthcare provision, we are all having to become more responsible for our own well-being. This book - an ima...

As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political ...

This practical book is designed for applied researchers who want to use mixed models with their data. It discusses the basic principles of mixed mo...

The scientific advances that underpin economic growth and human health would not be possible without research investments. Yet demonstrating the im...

Indigenous Australians and Health assists the student reader, through simple and practical strategies, to appreciate and understand the importance ...

During the last three decades, obesity has emerged as a big public health issue in affluent societies. A number of academic and policy approaches h...

Effective treatment for HIV and AIDS came in 1996. For sufferers in the developed world, this marked a true watershed moment: the end of the death ...

The acclaimed textbook for navigating the practice and challenges of public health, now updated and completely revised It should be recommended o...

Exam Board: Pearson BTECAcademic Level: BTEC NationalSubject: Health and Social Care First teaching: September 2016First Exams: Summer 2017     Our...

Community-Based Health Interventions covers the skills necessary to change health in a community setting through the reduction of disease, disease ...

Written for those who are familiar with the basic strategies of analytic epidemiology, Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics takes readers through a more...

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of hea...

The new edition of this critically praised textbook continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research adv...

Prevention in mental health is the process of identifying and treating mental illnesses before they become full blown syndromes as well as identify...

Ka Mno Wai is dedicated to the mo`olelo (stories) of fourteen esteemed kumu loea (expert teachers) who are knowledge keepers of cultural ways. Kama...

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse ...