Public Health & Preventive Medicine

For the United States, the 1991 Persian Gulf War was a brief and successful military operation with few injuries and deaths. However, soon after re...

Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and ...

Evaluation is essential in determining the success of health promotion programs. Just as each program is unique in nature, so too should be its eva...

The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment. Understanding how environme...

Despite spending far more on medical care than any other nation and despite having seen a century of unparalleled improvement in population health ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable ...

Firearm injuries and death are a serious public health concern in the United States. Firearm-related injuries account for tens of thousands of prem...

More than 200,000 people in the United States living with HIV/AIDS do not know they are infected. The Institute of Medicine's Committee on HIV Scre...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed around modern-day global cancer in...

Dieses Buch verschafft Ihnen als Apothekerin und Apotheker einen Überblick über die Welt des Online-Marketings und gibt Ihnen konkrete Anleitungen ...

One in five people in the United States had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any given day in 2018, totaling nearly 68 million estimated i...

Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades a...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

This book examines policies and programs which overcome the barriers that too often impede policy makers and aid agencies from effectively engaging...

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science. Stacey A. Langwick investigates the practice...

This is the definitive account of a small group of determined United Airlines employees in their relentless effort to find one another amidst a wor...

The new edition of this unique resource, grounded on an understanding that our global world is more connected than it has ever been, provides an es...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for ensuring that medical devices are safe and effective before they go on the market. Sectio...

With unprecedented global aging, societies must undertake all-of-society efforts to maximize the benefits and minimize the burdens of aging populat...

In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance...

With U.S. health care costs projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5 percent per year from 2018 to 2027, or 0.8 percentage points faster than th...

Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnes...