Public Health & Preventive Medicine

Why millions of Latinx people dont access the healthcare system, even in times of need More than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care ...

Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among adults, yet it need not be fatal. Though survival in most communities is very poor, a few...

This timely book offers a balanced and thoughtful review of the current mental health emergency and its impact upon and among medical professionals...

Public health erupted into the worlds consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What h...

This open access book examines the various ways that shame, shaming and stigma became an integral part of the United Kingdoms public health respons...

Respect for patient autonomy and data privacy are generally accepted as foundational western bioethical values. Nonetheless, as our society embrace...

Digital technology use, whether on smartphones, tablets, laptops, or other devices, is prevalent across cultures. Certain types and patterns of dig...

The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the worst medical disasters in human history, taking close to thirty million lives worldwide in less than...

Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply conte...

Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The b...

Mammography is a routine health screening performed forty million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply conte...

Includes 6 months' free ExamPrepConnect digital access with print purchase!Now in its 8th edition, The Licensing Exam Review Guide in Nursing Home ...

War causes death, disability, and disease. It damages the health-supporting infrastructure, displaces populations, violates human rights, and diver...

An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immed...

At Ansha's takes the reader inside the spirit mosque of a female healer in Nampula, northern Mozambique. It is here that Ansha, a Makonde spirit he...

FDA's approval of aducanumab has radically changed the world of Alzheimer's disease and you're going to need guidance regarding whether they should...

War causes death, disability, and disease. It damages the health-supporting infrastructure, displaces populations, violates human rights, and diver...

This text is an authoritative analysis of current services for children and young people in the UK. Drawing upon European-wide data, this innovativ...

Addresses threats to homeland security from terrorism and emergency management from natural disasters Threats to Homeland Security, Second Edition ...

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book s...

Praise for the First Edition: The authors of this review manual have captured all of the elements of simulation from establishing the objectives o...

For more than a generation, activists and advocacy organizations have been instrumental in agitating for women's health reforms in Ireland. Over th...

Gerald N. Grob's Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 has become a classic of American social history. Here the author continues h...