Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This important new study explores how American health care evolved in the 1990s, as well as the changes in public support and policy. Birenbaum exa...

Written by a pediatrician for pediatric clinicians on the front line in response to the ever increasing obligations they acquire for the well being...

This book focuses on how a distinctly American product—managed care—got its start, how it works, and what needs to be adjusted in the future. As Bi...

The explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988, should never have happened. Wallis, who has extensive, direct, perso...

Written by a team of nationally recognized African American social work professionals with extensive and distinguished backgrounds of HIV/AIDS serv...

This is the first book to deal exclusively with the influence and meaning of what media historian Paul Heyer calls our century's first collective n...

This multidisciplinary analysis links epidemiologic, cultural, social, and medical analyses of cancer prevention, detection, and care. The contribu...

Health and safety risk issues such as AIDS, hazardous waste disposal, airline disasters, and health care policy frequently dominate the news and re...

Over the past 200 years, a health reform movement has emerged about every 80 years. These clean living cycles surged with, or were tangential to, a...

The current practices of prescribing psychotropic drugs, according to Keen, are both inconsistent and irrational. Overprescription alone is epidemi...

The brief, successful Gulf War resulted in few casualties, but there were still recognizable pockets of trauma. This study examines the Mental Heal...

Historical, sociological, and ecological analyses reveal that the health of a people is broadly determined by the strength, resilience, and vitalit...

Health and safety risk issues such as AIDS, hazardous waste disposal, airline disasters, and health care policy frequently dominate the news and re...

This book is a collection of mortality abstracts based on recent follow-up studies on the results of health disorders from the abstracts and articl...

This book presents and illustrates the perspectives and roles of six disciplines on a multidisciplinary child-protection team. It is intended to be...

Since the AIDS epidemic was recognized, information on safer sex has been assumed to be the most crucial means of preventing further spread of the ...

This book is . . . a survey history of medicine from the earliest times, centered thematically on how changing concepts of disease have affected it...

Bringing together some of the most respected leaders from industry, academe, and government, this volume deals with the growing field of health edu...

As economic and demographic conditions change, and technology advances, world leaders are becoming increasingly concerned with the future of health...

This text brings together classic and up-to-date research by economists and public-health experts on theories and measurements of health values. Th...

Since recording its first AIDS cases in 1983, Tanzania has reported nearly 90,000 more to the World Health Organization - more than any other count...

Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only...

This study examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical reco...

This study examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical reco...

On March 27, 1977, 583 people died when KLM and Pan Am 747s collided on a crowded, foggy runway in Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The cause was a mi...

In recent years, relations between patients and physicians in America have undergone a dramatic change. The growing acceptance of natural childbirt...

Your Health at Work is your fully researched and up-to-date guide to the most common health risks at work in the UK and how you can tackle them. Th...

A daily glass of wine prolongs life—yet alcohol can cause life-threatening cancer. Some say raising the minimum wage will decrease inequality while...

Everyone has opinions about vaccines, but what are the facts? This resource provides clear, unbiased, and up-to-date information on vaccination, wh...

How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examine...

Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and publi...

How did seven low- and middle-income countries, inspired by the landmark Alma-Ata Declaration, dramatically improve citizen health by focusing on p...

What You Need to Know About the Flu offers readers a concise yet in-depth look at the influenza virus and the illness it causes, with both a histor...

The indispensable guide to dementia from the UK's leading expert 'Will help families and friends of people with dementia all over the world' Dame ...

'A well-written discussion by a world-renowned cardiologist on how the heart functions. More importantly, it is a simple and concise book that char...

How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examine...

Since the dawn of the industrial age, we have unleashed a bewildering number of potentially harmful chemicals. But out of this vast array, how do w...

Jennifer Renee Blevins’s debut memoir, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and...

Providing a holistic and client-centered approach, Assistive Technologies and Environmental Interventions in Healthcare explores the individual’s n...

How do government and private interests shape the health policy process?In this classic text, William G. Weissert and Carol S. Weissert describe ho...

There is not, and has never been, a single Canadian health system. Part of a series on the health systems of Canada’s provinces and territories, Ne...

Learn the essential skills of psychological first aid from the experts—the creators of the Johns Hopkins RAPID PFA method.Psychological first aid, ...

A comprehensive, accessible summary of the latest research in heart disease risk factors Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is a major cause of early dea...

In this engaging and accessibly written book, Population Health in America weaves demographic data with social theory and research to help students...

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. ...

The fascinating story of Tamiflu's development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu....

This A–Z encyclopedia provides a broad and evenhanded overview of America's complex relationship with marijuana, examining political, recreational,...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MPox epidemic, recent outbreaks of Ebola, and a growing focus on the role of social determinants in healt...