Public Health & Preventive Medicine

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks...

An accessible and diverse resource for infectious disease outbreak response. For too long, the theory and practice of infectious disease outbreak r...

What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that ...

An exposé of the true cause of Americas vast health disparitiesIn Twenty Years of Life, Suzanne Bohan exposes the ugly truth that health is largely...

When climate disasters like hurricanes, heatwaves, and tsunamis strike, they reveal the inequities of our social, political, and economic structure...

When climate disasters like hurricanes, heatwaves, and tsunamis strike, they reveal the inequities of our social, political, and economic structure...

Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil. When we chase happiness, it runs away like a cat ...

This book presents new scientific knowledge on using developmental science to improving lives of children and youth across the globe. It highlights...

This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance ...

In his latest book, Dr. Robert A. Norman introduces us to the intriguing concept of preventive dermatology. Although dermatologists have long been ...

Our health, our income and our social networks at older ages are the consequence of what has happened to us over the course of our lives. The situa...

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened health disparities worldwide. Across all nations, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen most heavily on the socially...

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened health disparities worldwide. Across all nations, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen most heavily on the socially...

In Qualitative Research in Health and Illness, Dr. Jessica Smartt Gullion leverages two decades of experience as a qualitative methodologist and ep...

The complex answer to why the United States does so poorly in health measures has at its base one pervasive issue: The United States has by far the...

Zahlen, Daten, Analysen aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft - Der jährlich als Buch erscheinende Fehlzeiten-Report informiert umfassend über Struktur...

Britain is sick and it needs saving. Covid-19 has brought death, disruption and disorder. It has revealed fundamental failures in public policy and...

Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for teaching ge...