Public Health & Preventive Medicine

This brand-new textbook introduces medical students, junior doctors, medical educators and allied health professionals to the vital skills of diagn...

This accessible resource offers valuable guidance for all student and practising speech and language therapists (SLTs)who are working with older pe...

This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering...

This comprehensive text focuses on reasoning, critical thinking and pragmatic decision making in medicine. Based on the authors extensive experienc...

Since its first publication in 1933, Clays Handbook of Environmental Health (under its different names) has provided a definitive guide for the env...

Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Pro...

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female bod...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

Bayesian Demographic Estimation and Forecasting presents three statistical frameworks for modern demographic estimation and forecasting. The framew...

There is an increasing need for educational resources for statisticians and investigators. Reflecting this, the goal of this book is to provide rea...

This book describes the variety of direct and indirect population size estimation (PSE) methods available along with their strengths and weaknesses...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

Four decades have passed since reports of a mysterious gay cancer first appeared in US newspapers. In the ensuing years, the pandemic that would c...

This set of four volumes represents 50 years of research on the quality of life conducted by Alex C. Michalos. It brings together and puts into a h...

Using an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various globa...

Health professionals have shown a growing interest in the therapeutic value of 'hope' in recent years. However, hope has been examined mainly from ...

In recent decades, global healthcare professionals and organisations have formed a wide, evidence-based consensus that breastfeeding is usually the...

Learn how to effectively plan, implement, and evaluate health programs Health Program Management: From Development Through Evaluation, Second Edit...

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy, employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK ...

Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.   Over the last ...

Auf der Grundlage führender empirischer psychologischer Forschungsarbeiten aus der ganzen Welt bietet dieses Buch wertvolle Erkenntnisse über Fra...