Public Health & Preventive Medicine

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills. ...

This practical handbook provides detailed guidelines on prescribing drugs in all classes and for a wide variety of diseases and disorders during pr...

Recent advancements in signal processing and computerised methods are expected to underpin the future progress of biomedical research and technolog...

Add the Empirical Likelihood to Your Nonparametric ToolboxEmpirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis explains how to use the empirical likeli...

Unsafe abortion remains one of the most neglected sexual and reproductive health problems according to the World Health Organisation. In recent yea...

Health law and policy in Nigeria is an evolving and complex field of law, spanning a broad legal landscape and drawn from various sources. In addr...

Explore Important Tools for High-Quality Work in Pharmaceutical SafetyStatistical Methods for Drug Safety presents a wide variety of statistical ap...

Taking a decentred approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which r...

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high? What factors in school, community, fami...

In recent years, health has become a pressing issue in international politics - a development which has been reflected in the growth of academic li...

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 ...

COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan City in December 2019 and spread throughout Hubei Province and other parts of China. After causing significa...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

This book embarks on a journey never taken before, approaching the imaging of the disease of achalasia with new pathophysiological assumptions in m...

Heavenly Hurts Surviving AIDS-Related Deaths and Losses imparts vital information for anyone touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. In the AIDS ...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

The neighborhoods and the biophysical, political, and cultural environments all play a key role in affecting health outcomes of individuals. Unequa...

Part I of this book explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems. Part II explores the debate about access...

This title was first published in 2001. This work is a uniquely multi-disciplinary contribution to the existing bioethical literature on the topic ...

This highly practical text on gynecologic emergencies includes sonographic findings and laparascopic investigations and management for point-of-car...

Data Analysis with Competing Risks and Intermediate States explains when and how to use models and techniques for the analysis of competing risks a...

This unique book draws upon a collection of essays and personal reflections by Dr Peter Tate, covering at least half a century of his experience of...

In biological research, the amount of data available to researchers has increased so much over recent years, it is becoming increasingly difficult ...

Cannabis Physiopathology and Detection features an outstanding collection of contributions from leading researchers around the world. Papers were p...

This title was first publihsed in 2000: Confronting Icarus, is the first book to bring together all of the original research that has been publishe...

Although Chinas new healthcare reform, launched in 2009, has achieved remarkable results in improving Chinas medical and healthcare system, it is r...

'This book gives plenty of examples of ad hominem attacks, intimidation, slander, threats of litigation, deception, dishonesty, lies and other viol...

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN DERMATOLOGYFifth EditionRICHARD ASHTON, MA, MD, FRCP, Consultant Dermatologist, Lighthouse Clinic, Isle of Wight, UK, for...

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals...

This title was first published in 2002: Health systems across the globe face similar problems: controlling costs while maintaining or improving hea...

Originally published in 1970, this title was intended to describe a wide and complex network of historical, social, psychological and medical issue...

Phosphorus is an essential nutrient that occurs in almost all foods and is important for many normal physiological functions. In a typical Western ...

This joint publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) provides a concise analysis of...

Hearing is essential for normal communication. We are able to localise sound with surprising accuracy and can detect time differences as small as t...

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is the generation and synthesis of evidence that compares the benefits and harms of alternative methods to...

Its always been said, Children are not young adults, and the examination of a child needs to be conducted with emphasis on the physiologic differen...