Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This book is devoted to a theme of public health reaching out to communities of practice/engaging communities in new public health endeavours/commu...

In this Public Health Yearbook 2011 the authors will touch upon several topics like health risk communication, translational research, primary care...

India or the Republic of India is a large country in South Asia, in fact the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with...

Lung development is a methodical and co-ordinated process that culminates in the creation of an organ that contains airways, alveoli, blood vessels...

This yearbook compiles articles published in the International Public Health Journal, a peer-reviewed journal which provides an international multi...

The need to better prepare physicians for rural and remote practice continues to be a pressing issue in medical education around the world. Rural a...

Health literacy offers a new way of thinking about how we engage with information about and for health, both as users and providers of information....

Physicians are well trained in conventional medicine and most are well acquainted with integrative medicine, which incorporates conventional and al...

This book aims to present some fundamental pillars that must be taken into account for the design and construction of a medical record system. The ...

The provision of health care in the United States has been described as fragmented, with patients seeing multiple providers. Fragmented care has be...

The health communication strategies presented in this book are based on the understanding that there are many factors underpinning health. Starting...

In this book, the health impacts of promoting walking to school as part of a comprehensive health impact assessment (HIA) were examined. The chapte...

Job burnout has been well described and refers to a transformation that occurs in persons exposed to considerable occupational stress, particularly...

Understanding the supply, distribution, and educational pipeline of nurses is key to designing programs and policies that will ensure access to car...

Formaldehyde (FA) is a highly reactive compound with a toxic effect on all organisms due to non-specific interactions with proteins and nucleic aci...

Sedentary behaviours include activities at the lowest spectrum of energy expenditure such as lying down, sitting, watching television, using the co...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in individuals older than 65 years of age. The authors of this book discus...

This book aims to report on the status of one of the most important phycocolloids in the food industry (E407 - carrageenan). The natural resources ...

Microbiological industrial hygiene is defined as the safeguarding of industrial products, premises, personnel and raw materials from harmful or haz...

Substantial resources are being committed to the development of so-called ''''serious'''' video games as interventions for health issues. Health ed...

Health education is the profession of educating people about health. Areas within this profession encompass environmental health, physical health, ...

Brand-name pharmaceutical companies can delay generic competition that lowers prices by agreeing to pay a generic competitor to hold its competing ...

The book was developed based on the expertise of four research groups, three of them linked to the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP): Studies ...

This book is a collection of latest works that show the unique roles and positions of different health care professionals on the arena of health ca...

Following the September 11th, 2011, terrorist attacks, Congress provided appropriations to furnish health care services for rescue, recovery and cl...

Vaccines play an essential role in keeping humans and animals healthy. The vaccine has been one of the most important interventions designed to bot...

Public Health Yearbook 2017 present research on: adolescent alcohol use in the Caribbean region; discussion about how to break the cycle of child a...

This book describes the origin of the Pilates method with its principles and foundations idealized by its creator, Joseph H Pilates. Based on his e...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by the GAO (Government Accountabil...

The aim of Volume 11 is to provide evidence on the indicators of fluid distribution and cellular integrity evaluated by nioelectrical impedance ana...

A variety of topics are presented in this book that seek to reflect on medical history before and after the golden age of the Medical Renaissance. ...

In 2013, about 10 million adults in the United States had a serious mental illness. The U.S. mental health care system includes a range of federal ...

The U.S. Armed Forces used a variety of chemical defoliants to clear dense jungle land in Vietnam during the war. Agent Orange (named for the orang...

The Break the Cycle program has been an annual academic event since 2005, recruiting students from many different disciplines and departments at ...

Falls are considered as one of the accidents that take more loss of functionality, mainly in older adults. This book begins with a discussion on th...

The chapters in this volume present the latest developments in medicine and biology. Chapter One reviews sialic acids in early life and their impac...

Striking changes have occurred in the world since the publication of the last edition of Viral Infections of Humans. The global population is rapid...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

This unique book presents original research from the largest cross-national survey of the epidemiology of mental disorders ever conducted. It provi...

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Eq...

This book explains what has been happening to the NHS since the 2012 Act. It challenges myths: that the NHS was broke, that we can''t afford the NH...