Public Health & Preventive Medicine

In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, using facts and peer-reviewed data to challeng...

Health care in the United States has made remarkable advances during the past forty years. Yet our health care system also has several well-known p...

This book is based on a national literature search focusing on the best practices of cities, of all sizes and geographic locations, intended to ...

News of the current viral pandemic is unfolding rapidly every day. Everyone is inundated with information from different news portals, social media...

Determination of Metals in Natural and Treated Waters draws together all the available literature and presents in a systematic fashion the latest a...

In 2010, the National Research Council published the report U.S-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2000-2009). The review of th...

Health communication inquiry has developed over the last thirty years as a rapidly growing, active, and important interdisciplinary area of study c...

The theory and practice of social marketing has steadily been gaining significance following its conception over four decades ago, and has since be...

The concept of global health has moved on from focusing on the problems of the developing world to encompass health problems with global impact. Gl...

Dedicated to Martin Fishbein, the premier social psychologist in the area of attitude and attitude change, this volume focuses on his work as the c...

On March 13, 2017, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement join...

Body, Society, and Nation tells the story of Chinas unfolding modernity by exploring the changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health a...

Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the US and Europe today. Over the last 20 years, many innovations in techn...

Healthcare in the US is rapidly changing. The changes that are occurring as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare will forever mod...

Preparedness, Response and Recovery Considerations for Children and Families is the summary of a workshop convened in June, 2013 by the Institute o...

Fungal diseases have contributed to death and disability in humans, triggered global wildlife extinctions and population declines, devastated agric...

Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed ex...

Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security...

During the past century the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States have shifted from those related to communicable diseases t...

Factoring health and related costs into decision making is essential to confronting the nation's health problems and enhancing public well-being. S...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the regulatory agency in the US Department of Agriculture that is responsible for ensuring that me...

Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others,...

Lead is a heavy metal used since ancient times and is still employed for several industrial purposes due to its suitable physical and chemical prop...

Alcohol consumption patterns are characterized as mild, moderate, social, heavy drinking, problem drinking, binge drinking and heavy episodic drink...

Why medication-assisted treatment, the most effective tool for battling opioid addiction, is significantly underused in the United States.Bronze Wi...

The first book to tell the shocking story of Golden Rice, a genetically modified grain that provides essential Vitamin A and can save lives in deve...

Women are twice as likely as men to become depressed. While they seek help for mental disorders more often than men, they also seek to help others,...

The world's aging populations, with age-related disorders affecting every organ system, are generating medical care costs rising at an unsustainabl...

Public Health is one of the fastest growing university programs in the United States today. At the same time, the challenges that face the practiti...

An insiders view of the state-supported AIDS denial of South African leaders Thabo Mbeki and Manto Shabalala-Msimang, this memoir describes a great...