Public Health & Preventive Medicine

How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicineThe U.S. medical system is touted as the most adva...

William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids place on Latino communitiesand the families and friends who must recover from...

Powerful stories of the debilitating effects of neglected tropical diseases throughout the world, highlighting the successes and challenges of thos...

Did you know that one in three people in Ireland will develop cancer during their life? Or that an average of 30,000 new cases of cancer are diagno...

Provide your students with a strong and distinctive case study approach which will contextualise key issues with the Student Textbook for BTEC Firs...

Turning the World Upside Down is a search to understand what is happening and what it means for us all. It is based on Nigel Crisp''s own journey f...

The essential health behavior text, updated with the latest theories, research, and issues Health Behavior: Theory, Research and Practice provides...

This practical guide helps nursing students and other healthcare professionals promote and improve the health and wellbeing of those with mental he...

As Britain ages amid austerity, more and more people will suffer from long-term health conditions.  Obesity and diabetes are on the rise.  Mental h...

Genetic epidemiology plays a key role in discovering genetic factors influencing health and disease, and in understanding how genes and environment...

How can we understand the COVID-19 pandemic? Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing such catastrophi...

Praise for the Second Edition: ...a grand feast for biostatisticians. It stands ready to satisfy the appetite of any pharmaceutical scientist with ...

Introduction to Epidemiology, Eighth Edition is a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to this exciting field. Designed for students with mi...

Medicinal Foods as Potential Therapies for Type-2 Diabetes and Associated Diseases: The Chemical and Pharmacological Basis of their Action focuses ...

An essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health More than half the world's population lives in cities ...

Epidemiology is integral to public health. This book introduces the principles, methods and application of epidemiology for improving health and su...

Reflecting a sea change in how empirical research has been conducted over the past three decades, Foundations of Agnostic Statistics presents an in...

Infectious Disease Epidemiology is a concise reference guide which provides trainees and practicing epidemiologists with the information that they ...

Over the last decades, we have seen more than three dozen new infectious diseases appear, some of which could kill millions of people with one or t...

Teaching epidemiology requires skill and knowledge, combined with a clear teaching strategy and good pedagogic skills. The general advice is simple...

Maintaining a practical perspective, Bioequivalence and Statistics in Clinical Pharmacology, Second Edition explores statistics used in day-to-day ...

Only a few decades ago, we were ready to declare victory over infectious diseases. Today, infectious diseases are responsible for significant morbi...

'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise,...

In 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leones main hospital after the doctor in charge h...

In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human culture from 2700 bce to 2017. Entri...

A complete guide to understanding cluster randomised trials Written by two researchers with extensive experience in the field, this book presents ...

A global perspective on the management and prevention of emerging and re-emerging diseases Emerging infectious diseases are newly identified or oth...

There is increasing interest in the scientific literature on immigrant health and its impact on disease transmission, disease prevention, health pr...

Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment...

With over two hundred types of cancer diagnosed to date, researchers the world over have been forced to rapidly update their understanding of the b...

This book introduces you to the basic rules and principles of statistics and shows you how straightforward statistical tests can be performed and a...

So-called top-down technologies have enabled us to manufacture and fabricate structures even smaller than the micrometer scale. MEMS (Micro Electro...

Epigenetics is a relatively new field of science explaining heritable changes that are not caused by alterations in DNA sequences. Epigenetic modif...