Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, ...

Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective provides a comprehensive, yet a practical resource on sexual health for public health professionals. Th...

As a doctor who has been treating patients for a few decades, Dr Zhong Nanshan's goal is to help people have a deeper understanding of the importan...

For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Ra...

''You''ll never think about your largest organ the same way again'' David Epstein, author of RangeIntroducing the new science of skin and a more na...

This book offers a compelling account of the two-pronged fight against both leprosy and the discrimination that comes with it. Leprosy is generally...

Weaving together research findings and narratives, Culture of Health in Practice: Innovations in Research, Community Engagement, and Action explore...

Food is at the center of national debates about how Americans live and the future of the planet. Not everyone agrees about how to reform our relati...

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistan...

We all long to live a fulfilled and happy life a life that offers us love and opportunity, independence and hope. Sadly, for many people strugglin...

The idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study. Carole Rawcliffe conti...

Principles in Health Economics and Policy, second edition, is a concise introduction to health economics and its application to health policy. It i...

Over the last 150 years, the Public Analyst profession has hidden its light under a bushel, with the notable exception of Fredrick Accum, one of th...

Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from w...

The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute o...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (herein known as the Affordable Care Act [ACA]) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Several provi...

The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the reco...

Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans cant get care when they need it. This is bad for patien...

This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities. This includes pap...

SOAP SAVES LIVES. But did you know that excessive use of soap and skin-care products is harming our health and the environment? Apart from in hand-...

''A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth'' New York Times Book Review''A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together ...

This is the fourth of sequential collections of the observations and applications on various health related topics. Most of the contributors of thi...

Approximately 3.4 million tons of biosolids, dry weight, are land-applied annually to farms, forests, rangelands, mine lands, and other land use ty...

PPACA required by 1 January 2014, the establishment in each state of health insurance exchanges -- marketplaces where eligible individuals and smal...

In this Public Health Yearbook 2014 we will touch upon several public health topics like Bedouin health, obesity in the Caribbean region, health in...

One of the challenging issues of contemporary pediatrics is potential long-term effects of maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy on the subse...

Bone mineral density (BMD) is a determinant of bone health. Phenotype, age, race, gender, activity level and overall health status all affect BMD. ...

Throughout history, humans have consumed wheat simply to obtain energy from its starch and protein. In recent years, however, additional health-rel...

How can you make the most of retirement? How should you plan for retirement? What are the challenges of retirement and how can they be dealt with? ...

The process in which calcium salts build up in soft tissue, causing it to harden is known as calcification and may be classified based on whether t...

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers ...

The link between physical activity and health benefits has been intuitively known for years. Moreover, medical literature clearly demonstrates that...