Public Health & Preventive Medicine

A seminal work in health economics, Michael Grossman's The Demand for Health introduced a new theoretical model for determining the health status o...

At a moment when the world's population increasingly lives in urban settings, the public health of cities-or the intersection of stress and wellnes...

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year—more now than at any other time in h...

Practical advice from an award-winning specialist nurse. Highly Commended, British Medical Association Book Awards Designed to help determine wha...

Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer—that some law defines our status as living (or not) for...

The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communitie...

A story of courage and risk-taking, "House on Fire" tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of huma...

So many women who do everything right to stay healthy still wind up with breast cancer, heart disease, or osteoporosis. In The Fragile Wisdom, Graz...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ...

COVID-19 has made us all aware of the fact that we live in a world full of invisible enemies. Normally, we don’t even realize they’re there, but fr...

COVID-19 has made us all aware of the fact that we live in a world full of invisible enemies. Normally, we don’t even realize they’re there, but fr...

Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cho...

How do we create a culture of zero tolerance for sexual violence on college campuses?In a world where one in five women on campus experience some f...

' Charlotte Grand gives sensible practical advice' Dr Clare Bailey'Full of insightful information, valuable health hacks and delicious recipes' Dr...

From clean drinking water, to seat belts, to immunizations, the impact of public health on every individual is undeniable. For undergraduates, an u...

This concise book will help you to interpret the statistical evidence provided by quantitative studies and to plan how to work with data in your ow...