Public Health & Preventive Medicine

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...

Cardiac tamponade is a life threatening pericardial disease which is characterized by an obstruction of inflow of blood to the ventricles leading t...

Myotonic dystrophy is a multisystemic disorder. The epidemiology of DM is examined in the first chapter of this book as well as potential therapeut...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...

Epidemiology has been defined as the study of the distribution and determinants of health states or events in defined populations and its applicati...

A human disaster is defined as a hazardous event that overwhelms the capacity of the local community to respond to the needs of the affected popula...

Practical Implementation of an Antibiotic Stewardship Program provides an essential resource for healthcare providers in acute care, long-term care...

Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural history of the disease, to the tale of its discove...

As many medical and healthcare researchers have a love-hate relationship with statistics, the second edition of this practical reference book may m...

Every time we sneeze, there seems to be a new form of flu: bird flu, swine flu, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, H5N1, and most recently, H5N7. While th...

One doctors surprising answer to the epidemic of chronic disease and essential reading for everyone concerned with the health of the next generatio...

SAS programming is a creative and iterative process designed to empower you to make the most of your organization's data. This friendly guide provi...

In the year 2000 the World Health Organization estimated that 85 percent of fifteen-year-olds in Botswana would eventually die of AIDS. In Saturday...

Containing the historical and statistical information necessary to choose an analysis method and successful drug combination, Evaluating Synergy ...

Gallstone disease is one of the most prevalent digestive diseases, resulting in a considerable amount of financial and social burden in the USA. Ap...

Uric acid (UA) is an end-product of purine derivatives in human metabolism. Without further metabolism, it is excreted by kidneys and intestinal tr...

This book presents original results on the leading edge of cancer research. Chapter One reviews the most recent advances in the management, analyse...

Learn how to take control of your own well-being.Get Fit, Stay Fit, 7th Edition and FitnessDecisions.com work together to show you how to create a ...

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) is one of the largest-scale research collaborations in global health, distilling a wide range of health in...

Featuring 30 types of breasts, The Boob Book is an illustrated celebration of womanhood and the boobs that come with it. Scattered throughout are ...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive o...

Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist, mostly unregu...

Understanding Epidemiology teaches students the skills required to think critically about public health problems. The text takes an interdisciplina...

Hippocrates famously advised doctors 'it is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has'. Yet 2,500 yea...

Whatever your age, making key decisions about your medical care now can help you maintain your dignity and autonomy for as long as possible. In Let...