Public Health & Preventive Medicine

The new second edition of this forward-thinking text goes beyond the discussion of health disparities to highlight the importance of health equity....

The only text that accessibly examines the social determinants of health from a Canadian, contemporary, and comparative perspective Featuring thou...

Human health is shaped by the interactions between social and ecological systems. In States of Disease, Brian King advances a social ecology of hea...

Over the past six decades, there have been dramatic changes in the dynamics of family life in the United States. Today, about seven out of 10 babie...

Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved one...

This unique introduction to the essentials of global health has been constructed by medical students from all over the world through the help of Me...

The Drugs Don't Work - A Penguin Special by Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for EnglandIf we fail to act, we are looking at ...

'Wolfe has an important story to tell and as a virologist at the forefront of pandemic forecasting, he is the perfect person to tell it' GuardianIn...

Choosing Health uses real-life applications, behavior change tools, and mobile technologies to help you understand your actions and how to change t...

Activism is action on behalf of a cause, action that goes beyond what is conventional or routine and is relative to the actions by others. Healt...

In this report, the Commission provides updated guidance on radiological protection against radon exposure. The report has been developed consideri...

This edited volume aims to facilitate the evolution of the new public health approach towards gambling. Bringing together the work of international...

Psychologists like to claim that Psychology is a science, yet, until now, the discipline has lacked any real scientific laws, has had no overarchin...

Internationally renowned medical scientist, frequent media contributor, and autism dad Dr. Peter J. Hotez explains why vaccines do not cause autism...

Introduction to Global Health is a comprehensive look at today''s most critical global health concerns and the actions that people around the world...

Food and its many aspects -- production, consumption, marketing, labeling, procurement, safety -- have become a mainstay of both popular discourse ...

The Australian Health Care System 5th edition is a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the structure and operation of health systems and ...

The 'Pocket Guide to Health Promotion' is a short, punchy and practical guide aimed at students and practitioners. The book includes precise defini...

Building on Level One, this volume of Human Factors in Healthcare continues to enhance and develop the SHEEP model, delving deeper into the challen...

Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It collects 16 speeches given over a period of 10 years by Donald M. Berwick, an interna...

Expertly authored by the world s leading specialists in the field, Prevention of Diabetes is the definitive guide for better preventative diabetes ...

Three out of four people addicted to heroin probably started on a prescription opioid, according to the director of the Centers for Disease Control...

The NHS is the closest thing the UK has to a national religion. No wonder: it unites people across social and class divides. But it is also under p...

This book uncovers stakes and possibilities offered by Computational Intelligence and Predictive Analytics to Medical Science. The main focus is on...

This eminently relevant and thoroughly entertaining book reminds us that understanding more about health care helps us understand the larger world ...

A brilliant and sobering (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs of pandemic outbreaksAs seen on 60 Minutes  The Wo...