Public Health & Preventive Medicine

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

Wellness medicine is the field that focuses on improving overall functioning, quality of life, and wellbeing, beyond symptom management of medical ...

Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable ...

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of coun...

Biological systems are extremely complex and have emergent properties that cannot be explained or even predicted by studying their individual parts...

Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the...

In questi anni lutilizzo del Web ha profondamente trasformato la vita quotidiana di uomini e donne, intervenendo sul vissuto contemporaneo oltre ch...

Cluster analysis finds groups in data automatically. Most methods have been heuristic and leave open such central questions as: how many clusters a...

The primary data driver behind US drug policy is the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. This insider history traces the evolution of the surve...

Tobacco, alcohol and gambling corporations have been highly effective in stalling, diverting and blocking public health measures. This book provide...

A firsthand look at how policies and legal doctrines affect families living in low-income urban neighborhoods.Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper &...

Why do American couples differ in the number of children they have? To answer this question the first major longitudinal study in American fertilit...

Public Health Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, is an essential document for every public health nurse practicing in the United States. The...

We live in an era in which medicalizationthe process of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of human experiences as medical problems in need ...

Der Arzneiverordnungs-Report ist seit 1985 eine gemeinsame Publikation von Autoren aus  Pharmakologie, Klinik, Praxis, Gesundheitsökonomie und Kran...

THE GROUNDBREAKING, FORMATIVE WORK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- NOW UPDATED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH In 2003, ...

Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine. Medical Statistics Made Easy has been a perennial bestseller since the first e...

The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fiel...

The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fie...

The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then char...

The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fie...

Stiamo vivendo una crisi sistemica, epocale, che non riguarda solo leconomia e la finanza, ma anche lecosistema, il nostro mondo di valori e la cul...

If you drink apple juice with cinnamon, look after your gums, read, dance and take an aspirin a day - you are well on your way to preventing Alzhei...

The truth is most people dont actually need grueling, extreme workouts or aggressively limited diets to lose weight and feel proud to flaunt their ...